Ceremonia
Felipe Restrepo Pombo
FICTION | 2021 | 272 pages
Arturo Ibarra is a landowner who has made a fortune through coal mining. As time goes on and Santa María, the place where he lives, starts to be ravaged by violence, he kicks his wife and three kids out from that rural world where they were raised by tutors in order to fund private armies and give his sexual debauchery with young women full rein. The Ibarra family builds a dynasty far from that hacienda and, with that money, manage to build alliances with bilingual schools and clubs, finding a place where they can thrive in that small society. The wedding of the oldest Ibarra granddaughter—his son Enrique's daughter—to a politician will unleash a sort of terrible fresco of contempt, antipathy, selfishness, and the triumph of those who seem like a family even when they aren’t. However, it also vindicates those who are prisoners to a destiny and manage to escape that fate at the risk of becoming marginalized. This exploration of sexuality, desire, and the terrible loneliness of those crystal palaces that are foreign to most people all meet in an extraordinarily well-narrated second novel by Felipe Restrepo.
RIGHTS: spanish PLANETA
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