Synopses & Reviews
"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me."
In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are continuously searching: for a promised land, a destiny, the face of a woman who has disappeared -- searching for an impossible love and, conversely, for a love that is possible.
A way station for refugees from violence is the setting for an intense love triangle in which an uprooted and wandering people lead the reader to experience the collective drama of forced relocation. A Tale of the Dispossessed speaks to us about the inexorable law that has led man, expelled from paradise since the days of Adam through to modern times, in his search for a way back home.
About the Author
Laura Restrepo is a bestselling author and political activist. She has published several novels, including
Leopard in the Sun and
The Angel of Galilea, which was awarded Mexico's Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize and the Prix France Culture Award. She has been a professor of literature at the National University of Columbia as well as publisher of the weekly magazine
Semana. In 1984 she was a member of the peace commission that brought the Colombian government and guerrillas to the negotiating table. As she does with all of her novels, Restrepo did thorough research for
The Dark Bride, transforming her investigations as a journalist into the foundation for a fictional creation. She lives in Bogotá, Colombia.
Laura Restrepo fue profesora de literatura en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, editora política de la revista Semana, y miembro de la Comisión Nacional Para La Paz. Ha escrito varias novelas de las cuales se destacan Leopardo al Sol y Dulce Compa&natilde;ía que ganó el premio "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" en México, y el premio "France Culture" en Francia. Actualmente vive en Bogotá, Colombia.