The Scent of Orchids
by Mariana García Luna
Description
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.
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Translation rights available in all languages except for Spanish.
Reviews
“Using an endearing and playful prose, the author astounds with a novel that is both a journey through the world and through the human condition.” HarperCollins
“It is not a love story in the proper sense of the word. It does deal with love, but with love in all its manifestations and in an idyllic and utopic world that is born in the Amazonian.” Rocío Hernández
“This book is addressed to ‘any man or woman who wants to fall in love again, who wants to feel hopeful, who wants to have faith, who wants to be inspired; to those people who are interested in magical realism and in the Latin-American novel’”. Guadalupe Parral / Once Noticias
Author Biography
She is an author and a workshop facilitator. She graduated from Aula de Escritores de Barcelona in 2008. She obtained a diploma in Literary Creation from the Sociedad General de Escritores de México (SOGEM) in Querétaro (20062007). She specialized in proofreading at the Cálamo & Cran school of Barcelona in 2011. She was instructor of the course Literary Style in Aula Virtual de Escritores de Barcelona (20082012). She taught courses in Literary Writing at the Contemporary Art Museum of Monterrey (MARCO) from 2010 to 2018. She is a co-founder of the group Escritores Independientes Capítulo Monterrey (EICAM, 2012-2019). She is author of the books: Memorias del más allá, para vivir en el más acá (Alfaguara, 2016); Frutario. Cuentos de frutas, amor y desamor (2012); La hora del té. Cuentos líquidos (2015). For almost two years she wrote the column Things That Inspire Us on different media platforms. She was a host on the television show Palabras sobre la mesa (Words on the Table) that aired on Channel 28 of TVNL (2017-2019). She teaches the course of Narrative Composition in Cálamo Centro Literario since 2017. She lives in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
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- Publisher HarperCollins México
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9786075621630 / 6075621636
- Publication Country or regionMexico
- FormatPaperback
- Pages456
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEl olor de las orquídeas
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