The divine

A true crime that moved an entire society.

A plea against femicide, by one of the most important Spanish-language authors of today.

There were five of us, the Tutti Frutti. I say there were five of us, and we still are. Because what could happen has not happened, if it is true that it does.

Based on a true crime, Laura Restrepo has constructed this fiction. The characters that appear in it do not exist outside the imagined world. But the victim's tragedy is brutally real. Page after page, the dark scaffolding that could have been behind it is revealed, leading to the brilliant and ostentatious world of the Tutti Frutti, five young men from Bogotá's upper class, linked to each other since childhood by a playfully perverse and slightly criminal brotherhood. Throughout their daily lives, the path that leads to this intolerable transgression, this kind of announcement of Armageddon that will explode the resignation and conscience of an entire country, is prefigured, inexorable as fate.

Los Divinos is an extraordinary exercise in understanding and reinterpreting the facts. A hidden, dizzying, and deeply disturbing story against femicide. In this novel, the author transcends the narrated crime to reach, through it, the darkest corners of an entire culture.

Critics have said about Laura Restrepo:

"When the level of writing reaches where Laura Restrepo took it, you have to

take your hat off."

José Saramago

"Her fascination with popular culture and her impeccable humor [...] spare her novels any temptation towards pathos or melodrama and instill unmistakable reading pleasures."

Gabriel García Márquez

"Restrepo's narrative has an aesthetic distinction worthy of her great predecessors, Gabriel García Márquez and José Saramago."

Harold Bloom

"Laura Restrepo is a writer to treasure."

Alastair Reid

"Her powerful writing makes us return to that great literature, passionate and obsessed with history, which is (or was) Latin American fiction."

Terrence Rafferty ,

The New York Times Book Review

"Delirio is a splendid, dense, complex, disconcerting book. This novel surpasses

politics, even great art."

_The Washington Post

"A prose that at times takes our breath away."

Elena Poniatowska, La Jornada

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