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Mariposa azul cobalto

Lillian Yaffe (Colombia)
Novel, 297 pages

2018: After the death of Eliecer Hocen, family patriarch and respected Colombian entrepreneur, the tangle of secrets and intrigue that have surrounded this renowned family for decades begins to unravel.

Gabriela, his younger granddaughter, returns for his funeral, interrupting her successful professorial career in Barcelona that nobody knows is really an exile. Susana’s bitter resentment towards her apparently successful sister turns sinister and avaricious as the plot unfolds.

Journalist Sofía Baretto, college classmate of Gabriela’s, is investigating the stories of guerrilla prisoners in Colombian jails and discovers the diary of a man held hostage by guerrilla forces in 1999. She searches to discover his identity and fate, but there are truths which should remain hidden, and within the pages of this old notebook, she stumbles upon the most shocking of them.

Beginning in late twentieth century Colombia when narcotraffic and guerrilla warfare drove the country, and continuing into the early twenty-first century, this novel narrates stories and histories that seem to parallel—that is until they intersect in unimaginable connections of love and loyalty, treachery and betrayal—everyone seeking some form of redemption

For high-intermediate and above. Adult readers

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ISBN: 978-0-439-39885-5

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