by Laura Restrepo · EDB FICCION · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440670342
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«Dulce Compañía» is the novel by Laura Restrepo, published by EDB Ficción in paperback (219 pages, in Spanish).
A journalist is sent to a poor neighbourhood of Bogotá to cover the appearance of an angel. Her scepticism wavers when she meets the young man the neighbours adore, and she ends up immersed in supernatural events beyond her understanding. The novel explores popular faith, love and the mystery of the sacred.
First edition (1997), in the Ficcionario collection. Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in popular religiosity and supernatural elements.
Laura Restrepo is a Colombian author who began writing what were mainly political columns in her mid-twenties. Her first novel, Isle of Passion, is based on historical deeds that occurred on Clipperton Island.
