by Laura Restrepo · Alfaguara, S.A. Grupo Santillana, · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789587041453
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«Delirio» is the novel by Laura Restrepo, published by Alfaguara in paperback (344 pages, in Spanish).
After a brief business trip, Aguilar finds his wife, Agustina, plunged into an inexplicable bout of madness. To help her, he reconstructs the three days of his absence and delves into a past full of disturbing secrets. The novel alternates voices and times to portray love, mental illness, and a Colombia shaken by violence and corruption.
Winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize 2004; originally published that same year.
For readers of contemporary Spanish-language fiction who enjoy suspenseful plots and complex characters.
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.
