La Irrupción del paraestado

A young man named Rodolfo journeys with his family from Bogotá to Valledupar to see his dying father, and to face a reckoning with his past.

These two stories, one poetic in the prosaic and the other prosaic poetic, represent the survival of love and the imposition of the death, including the bridge of life trying to happen in Colombia, where it is only possible to claim recognition in small private stories--Publisher.

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.