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2015 novel by Claudia Amengual
Cartagena
First edition
AuthorClaudia Amengual
LanguageSpanish
Published2015
PublisherAlfaguara
ISBN978-9974-723-61-0

Cartagena is a 2015 Spanish-language novel by Uruguayan writer Claudia Amengual.

Set in Montevideo and Cartagena de Indias, it tells the story of a journalist living his midlife crisis who takes wrong decisions with disastrous consequences. Thirty years later, he travels to Cartagena in search of a new opportunity. Notably, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez appears as an important character in the last pages. This novel constitutes a posthumous tribute to the Colombian Nobel-Prize winner.

Awards

References

  1. "Cartagena". Uruguay: Bookshop. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  2. "El perdón como único camino". EL PAIS. 1 July 2015. (in Spanish)
  3. "Review of Cartagena". Isadora Libros. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2017. (in Spanish)
  4. "Amengual presenta Cartagena a sala llena". Uruguay: Teledoce. 28 April 2015. (in Spanish)
  5. "Amengual finalista". Brecha. 6 November 2014.
  6. "Premio Herralde de Novela 2014". Anagrama. Retrieved 17 August 2015.


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