"Supremely well-crafted" - Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "A
lively story of how children are affected by their parents,
emphasised by a third narrative strand where Larry and a daughter
of Escobar's strike up a friendship on a plane trip, neither aware
of their darker connection." - The Irish Times Larry returns to
Colombia twelve years after the disappearance of his father, an old
associate of Pablo Escobar. His remains have finally been unearthed
in a mass grave, and Larry is returning to give them a proper
burial . . . but not before a reunion with his childhood friend
Pedro. Pedro takes him straight from the airport to the Alborada
celebration, during which fireworks explode all over Medellin, and
the entire city loses its inhibitions. His homecoming quickly
becomes a rude awakening. The years of luxury living in
bodyguard-surrounded mansions are now firmly in the past, as Larry
watches his family-including his ex-beauty queen mother and
troubled brother-fall deeper into depression, drug addiction, and
the traps of the family business. Faced by an uncertain reality,
Larry is forced to confront his family's turbulent history and
reclaim himself from the dark remnants of a city trying to
rediscover itself. Unflinching and remarkably controlled, Jorge
Franco creates a stunning portrait of a generation wounded by their
parents' mistakes. What the readers are saying: "This is an
amazingly good book for how it captures the various emotions Larry
and the other characters go through and for the Cold emptiness it
finds at the heart of it all." "It makes for a fascinating moral
quandary and Franco handles the subject matter well." "Highly
recommended for anyone interested in realistic Latin American
fiction."
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