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El cielo está vacío / The Sky Is Empty
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An intense and disturbing story of love, rage, and despair between two opposing worlds By the author of the San Clemente Prize and finalist for the National Novel Prize in Colombia “With her rich and courageous prose, she unravels the threads of time and pain to show us the human soul.” --Pilar Quintana, Alfaguara Novel Prize “One of the writers revolutionizing Latin American literature.” --SModa The protagonist of this story receives an unexpected email from a former lover that awakens memories of a past episode: when she was very young, she left her family home in the Colombian countryside for a time to go to London and try her luck far from her country. There, she begins an ambiguous relationship with an Englishman twice her age. Soon, love and desire will be intertwined with a mutual, disturbing, and asymmetrical dependence that will ultimately leave its mark on them both. The Sky Is Empty is a coming-of-age story about sexual awakening, about igniting the fire in a society determined to extinguish it, about feeling invisible and out of place, about how we become who we truly are and the things we must give up to achieve it. The novel explores the loss of youth, loneliness, the inability to communicate, the difficulties of immigrants, sexual blackmail and the eternal search for the figure of the father and love as a weapon that can exalt the human being and at the same time destroy it. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An intense and disturbing story about love, rage, and despair, between two opposing worlds. By the San Clemente Award winning author, and runner-up for the National Novel Prize in Colombia. The protagonist of this story receives an unexpected email from a former lover who awakens in her the memory of a past experience: when she was very young, she left her family home in the Colombian landscape for a while, and went to London to try her luck away from her country. There she began an ambiguous relationship with an Englishman twice her age. Soon, love and desire were pierced by this disturbing, asymmetric codependency that would ultimately leave an imprint on them both. The Sky Is Empty is a coming-of-age story about sexual awakenings, about lighting a fire in a society bent on quenching it. It is about feeling invisible and out of place, about how we become who we really are and the things we must give up to get there. The novel delves on the loss of youth, on loneliness, the inability to communicate, the plight of immigrants, sexual blackmail, the endless search for a father figure, and love as a weapon capable of exalting human beings and tearing them apart at the same time
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