Delirium

Delirio is a Colombian story, an expression of everything that fascinates us about Colombia, including what’s terrifyingly fascinating. Restrepo has a total mastery over what she writes, an astonishing but absolute mastery. Delirium is one of the finest novels written in recent memory – José Saramago
A book and a half: stunning, dense, complex, mind-blowing * Washington Post *
A disconcertingly lovely book…sharp, vivid, utterly persuasive * New York Times *
Haunting…her unhinged heroine is a true mirror of a damaged and deranged society * Guardian *
Delirium has a determined and muscular narrative, with dry humour and a terrible sense of menace * Daily Telegraph *
This barrio angel teaches us to see behind the appearance of things and how to embrace reality with all the senses – Isabel Allende
Laura Restrepo’s Delirium has an aesthetic distinction worthy of her precursors Garcia Marquez and Saramago. Like them, her narrative sense of erotic derangement is elaborately nuanced. Ultimately she seems to me an authentic descendent of the greatest New World author and seer of eros, Walt Whitman – Harold Bloom
This beautiful and disturbing book haunted me during the days I read it and long after I put it down. Love, unknowability, loss, and even various forms of gain elide from one to another of its passionate, unnerving voices – Vikram Seth
A compelling and unnerving novel that offers profound insights into the deep scars that violence leaves on the individual and society * Observer *

Laura Restrepo is the bestselling author of several prize-winning novels published in over a dozen languages, including Leopard in the Sun, which won the Arzobispo San Clemente Prize, The Angel of Galilea, which won the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize in Mexico and the Prix France Culture in France, and Delirium, which won the 2004 Alfaguara Prize, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy, and was shortlisted for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France. She lives in Mexico City.

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