Name: Leopard in the sun
SKU: 19314820
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Author: Laura Restrepo
ISBN: 9780375705083

Type

Physical Book

Author

Laura Restrepo

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0375705082

ISBN13

9780375705083

Synopsis "Leopard in the sun "

In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, each subject only to laws of their own making. The similarities end there. While the Barragáns, headed by the brutal Nando, remain tied to the ancient traditions, the Monsalves grapple with whether or not to follow Mani, their charismatic and conflicted leader, into a modern age in which even fewer rules apply. As both clans ponder the profits they might reap from an expanding global cocaine trade, Nando and Mani are faced with the consequences of their violent pasts--and forced, by their disillusioned women and the prices on their heads, to reckon with the possibility that nothing will be left once all their bullets have found their targets. Rife with sensual detail, this epic story of lust, betrayal, and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news.

Laura Restrepo

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Laura Restrepo (Bogotá, 1950) published her first book in 1986, Historia de un entusiasmo (Aguilar, 2005), followed by La Isla de la Pasión (1989; Alfaguara, 2005 and 2014), Leopardo al sol (1993; Alfaguara, 2005 and 2014), Dulce compañía (1995; Alfaguara, 2005 and 2015), La novia oscura (1999; Alfaguara, 2005 and 2015), La multitud errante (2001; Alfaguara, 2016), Olor a rosas invisibles (2002; Alfaguara, 2008), Delirio (Alfaguara Prize 2004), Demasiados héroes (Alfaguara, 2009 and 2015), Hot sur (2013), Pecado (Alfaguara, 2016), Los Divinos (Alfaguara, 2018) and Canción de antiguos amantes (Alfaguara, 2022). Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and have received several awards, including the aforementioned, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for novels written by women; the Prix France Culture, awarded by French critics to the best foreign novel published in France in 1998; the Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Prize 2003, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize 2006 for the best foreign novel published in Italy. She was a Guggenheim Foundation fellow in 2006 and is a professor emerita at Cornell University, in the United States.

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