Cartagena (novel)


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.

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