Delirium

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Aguliar returns home after a four-day business trip to discover that his beloved wife has gone mad. Desperate to rescue Agustina from her sudden, devastating insanity, Aguliar delves back into her shadowy past. Other narratives are intertwined with his frantic search for the truth; that of Midas, a flamboyant drug-trafficker and Agustina's former lover, and Agustina's splintered memories of her own troubled childhood. The key to her madness lies buried deep in a Colombian story of money, power and corruption.

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

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Imprint: Vintage
Published: 03/07/2008
ISBN: 9780099515951
Length: 336 pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 234g
Price: £16.99

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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

A book and a half: stunning, dense, complex, mind-blowing

A disconcertingly lovely book...sharp, vivid, utterly persuasive

Haunting...her unhinged heroine is a true mirror of a damaged and deranged society

Delirium has a determined and muscular narrative, with dry humour and a terrible sense of menace

This barrio angel teaches us to see behind the appearance of things and how to embrace reality with all the senses

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

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

A compelling and unnerving novel that offers profound insights into the deep scars that violence leaves on the individual and society

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