

Cartagena
CLAUDIA AMENGUAL
"He was thirty-eight and beginning to think about his forties too often. The subject turned into an obsession. He needed to protect the feeling of greatness that was washing over him. He'd been chasing it all his life and he wasn't going to let it get away."
"She was a cultured woman, but from time to time she had to hide it so that Rossi wouldn't feel diminished."
CLAUDIA AMENGUAL
"He faced the definitive solitude from which no one returns. But he was not afraid. What was frightening was the isolation that so often surrounded him until he almost cut all ties."
CLAUDIA AMENGUAL
"Colombia was saved by its people clinging to life with obstinate joy."
CLAUDIA AMENGUAL
"What is it that makes what you write different?...The eyes and the years...the look and the experience make each story unrepeatable."