by Laura Restrepo · Companhia das Letras · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788535904208
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«A Noiva Escura» is the novel by Laura Restrepo, published by Companhia das Letras in paperback (400 pages, in Portuguese).
The plot, as journalistic investigation, addresses Tora, a town in the Colombian jungle, and Sayonara, mythical prostitute of the oil workers. Sayonara falls in love with Payanés, who abandons her, and marries Sacramento; jealousy and the memory of Payanés destroy the marriage, in a parable of the helplessness of the Colombian people.
The original novel, «La novia oscura», was published in 1999; this Brazilian Portuguese translation appeared in 2003.
For readers of contemporary and historical Latin American fiction, with love stories, social realism and characters with psychological depth.
Laura Restrepo is a Colombian author who began writing what were mainly political columns in her mid-twenties. Her first novel, Isle of Passion, is based on historical deeds that occurred on Clipperton Island.
