Fiction
The Scent of Orchids
by Mariana García Luna
In the fifties, Raquel and Alejo live the most wonderful love story, but it is a secret. Because of his prejudice, Raquel’s father is opposed to their relationship. One fateful day, they are discovered, which awakens her father’s anger, who will decide to punish the young lovers. The forced separation is imminent; Alejo ends up in the Peruvian Amazon while Raquel seeks asylum in Paris with her grandmother. Within the best tradition of Latinoamerican novel, Mariana García Luna brings us into an oneiric universe where, alongside Raquel and Alejo, Carmina, Nana and Santiago will join their fates, many years later, thanks to a mysterious wedding dress. Each of these characters will narrate the story from their perspective, one of them doing so from the realm of the dead in the shape of a ghost wandering through the rainforest.
