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In these 12 masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur.

In the city of Quibdó, a mother and her child embark on a canoe trip down the mighty Atrato River, the only route that allows them to penetrate the thick Colombian jungle. The journey is long, slowed down by several stops. As the small boat proceeds along the river, surrounded by mangroves, the mother tells a fellow passenger the story of how the little one came into her life and why the two of them are travelling along the Atrato. But as the boat advances, the mother's anxiety grows: she would rather not arrive, or turn around altogether.

Ein außergewöhnliches Debüt von Kolumbiens literarischem Shooting-Star. Eine junge Mutter und ihr Sohn durchqueren in einem kleinen Boot den strömenden Fluss Atrato in Kolumbien. Sie ist weiß, er ist schwarz. Die beiden sind auf dem Weg zur leiblichen Mutter und im Laufe der Fahrt erfahren wir ihre gemeinsame Geschichte. Dabei fließt die Erzählung wie der Fluss, der sie trägt. Er ist die Ader der Landschaft, eines Urwalds voller Früchte, Tiere und Düfte, aber auch die Ader des menschlichen Lebens.

“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There A...