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Lena has always lived in the jungle with Mother. There they look after a holiday home in surroundings that burst with colour and crawl with danger. Lena's only other friend is Isabella, who once visited regularly with her wealthy parents and security drone, Anton. But Isabella and her family haven't been seen in years.Mother is not like other mothers. She gets angry when Lena draws her with a face. When Lena challenges her to portray herself, ...

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The propulsive debut novel from one of the most innovative young fiction writers today - a searing and affecting depiction of what redemption can be for a person and for a country in the wake of trauma.

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Linda goes back to Colombia, having been away for twenty years. Her long-anticipated reunion with childhood best-friend Matty - who now runs a refuge for the street-kids of Medellin - proves more fraught with tension than she had hoped.

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Cosa sappiamo della Colombia? È un paese lontano che in noi evoca quasi solo l'immagine spaventosa quanto stereotipata dei narcos col mitra in mano. Gli undici episodi che compongono questo romanzo sono un viaggio nella sua storia recente, dal 1993 al 2013, raccontata con un taglio inedito, e cioè attraverso le vicende di un gruppo di ragazze privilegiate, figlie di diplomatici, politici e uomini d'affari, educate nelle scuole migliori e imbev...

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Julianne Pachico werd in 1985 in Cambridge geboren en woonde tot haar achttiende in Cali, Colombia. De geluksvogels speelt zich af rond de eeuwwisseling, tijdens de gewelddadigste jaren van de lange Colombiaanse burgeroorlog. Pachico schrijft met de realistische pen van een ooggetuige, maar de situaties doen hallucinerend aan. Een tiener verschuilt zich in haar ouderlijk huis totdat er op de deur gebonkt wordt. Haar docent wordt gekidnapt door...

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