by Cristian Alarcón · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420461168
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«El tercer paraíso» is the novel by Cristian Alarcón, published by Alfaguara in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
A writer cultivates a garden on the outskirts of Buenos Aires during the 2020 lockdown. There, memories of his childhood in southern Chile, exile under Pinochet's dictatorship, and the women who planted vegetable gardens and solidarity come back to him. Memory intertwines with botany and the eighteenth-century European expeditions in search of a paradise.
Winner of the XXV Alfaguara Novel Prize (2022). Belongs to the Narrativa Hispánica collection.
A work for readers of Latin American fiction interested in family memory, botany, and the landscape of the Southern Cone.
