La multitud errante / A Tale of the Dispossessed

by Laura Restrepo

En medio del trafago de la guerra, los protagonistas de La multitud errante andan siempre a la busqueda: de una tierra prometida, de un destino, del rastro de una mujer desaparecida, de un amor imposible y tambien, por que no, de un amor posible. Un pais que echa a andar por los caminos y un albergue para refugiados de la violencia son los escenarios de un intenso triangulo de amores contenidos, cuyos protagonistas llevan al lector a vivir el drama colectivo del desplazamiento forzado. La multitud errante nos habla de la ley inexorable que ha llevado al hombre, desde los miticos dias de Adan hasta los cruentos y virtuales fantasmas del moderno presente.

Genres: Fiction, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Novels

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Laura Restrepo is a Colombian writer. Her first fiction novel, Isle of Passion, is based on historical facts from Clipperton Island.

She is an award winning author. In 1997, she won the "Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" prize at the Guadalajara Book Fair for her novel The Angel of Galilea. In 2002 she won the "Premio Arzobispo San Clemente" Award for her novel Leopard in the Sun. In 2004 she won the "VII Premio Alfaguara de Novella" Prize for Delirium. She also won the "Grinzane Cavour" Prize in Italy for best foreign fiction in 2006. In 2007 it was the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her novel Dulce Compañía won the "Prix France Culture" in France.