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Margarita Garcia Robayo

    Margarita García Robayo is celebrated for her distinctive ability to delve into the intimate and often uncomfortable truths of human existence. Her writing, frequently characterized as raw and provocative, explores complex relationships, internal struggles, and the ambiguities of modern life. Through sharp observations and a direct style, the author challenges readers to reflect on their own motivations and societal norms. Her work is a celebration of unfiltered reality, revealing both the beauty and brutality found in the everyday.

    Encomienda, La
    Das Paket
    El Sonido de Las Olas / The Sound of the Waves
    The Delivery
    Holiday Heart
    Fish Soup
    • 2023

      **From the acclaimed author of Fish Soup, a novel of motherhood, memory, and possibility just this side of the uncanny. ** In Delivery, an enormous package arrives that can't be opened, Agatha the cat appears and disappears, half-finished buildings punctuate the horizon--semi-ordinary happenings that take on an otherworldly cast if you look at them sideways. And nothing is stranger, in this high rise apartment far from home, than the tenuous bonds of family that hold us together, or don't. The narrator works, zooms with her sister, makes plans for the future (a writing residency, a child), and tentatively probes her past, while subtle fissures open up around her, changing her life forever. As she says about her childhood home, "Sometimes I get curious...but I don't ask, because the answer could come with information I'd rather not know." By turns tender and biting, this is Robayo's finest work yet.

      The Delivery
    • 2020

      Holiday Heart

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.4(167)Add rating

      Lucia and Pablo are a couple, school teachers who left Colombia to make a living in the US. While Pablo keeps fond memories of his motherland and a close relationship with his family, Lucia rejects all notions of patriotism and nostalgia. After struggling to conceive for a long time, Lucia finally gets pregnant with twins - but shuts Pablo out.

      Holiday Heart
    • 2018

      Fish Soup

      • 212 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.8(530)Add rating

      Set on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, "Waiting for a hurricane," follows a girl obsessed with escaping both her life and her country. Emotionally detached from her family and disillustioned with what the future holds, the takes drastic steps, seemingly oblivious to the damage she causes to herself and those around her. "Sexual education" examines the attempts of a student to tally the strict doctrine oabstinencece taught at her school with the very different social norms of her social circles. The short stories offer snapshots of lives in turmoil, frayed by relationships, dreams of escape, family taboos and rejection of, and by, society.

      Fish Soup