La Perra / The Dog, Paperback

Una conmovedora novela de Pilar Quintana.

Damaris, una mujer del Pacifico entrada en la madurez y con muchas decepciones a cuestas, adopta a una perra y la llama Chirli, como hubiera querido llamar a la hija que nunca tuvo. Nace, asi, una relacion intensa y entranable, en la que Damaris pone todo de si para enderezar un destino que ya creia del todo torcido.

La critica ha dicho ``En la costa del Pacifico colombiano, lejos de la idilica postal, vive Damaris junto a su marido Rogelio. En este rincon del planeta la vida no conoce seguridad y los suenos conviven con las mas cruentas pesadillas. Todos se encuentran cercados: tanto por el paisaje sobrecogedor como por sus convulsos horizontes internos. En La perra, Pilar Quintana hila con extraordinaria maestria la naturaleza humana junto al caos del universo. Es una novela llena de incognitas sobre los deseos incumplidos, la culpa y los lugares por donde aun circula el amor.`` Gabriela Aleman ``La perra es una novela de una violencia verdadera. Como la artista que es, Pilar Quintana encuentra heridas que no sabiamos que teniamos, senala su belleza, y luego arroja en ellas un puno de sal.`` Yuri Herrera ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A moving novel by Pilar Quintana.

Damaris, a mature woman from the Pacific with many disappointments behind her, adopts a dog and names her Chirli, which is what she would have named the daughter she never had. Thus is born an intense, fond relationship in which Damaris invests all of herself to straighten out a destiny that she believed was already totally awry.

The critics have said:

``On the Pacific coast of Colombia, far from an idyllic postcard, Damaris lives with her husband Rogelio. In this corner of the planet, life knows no certainty and dreams coexist with the bloodiest nightmares. Everyone finds themselves fenced in: by the horrible landscape as well as its tumultuous internal limits. In The Dog, Pilar Quintana intertwines human nature and the chaos of the universe with extraordinary mastery. This is a novel full of mysteries about unrequited desires, guilt, and the places that love still circulates.``

-Gabriela Aleman

``The Dog is a novel of true violence. Like the artist she is, Pilar Quintana finds wounds that we didn't know we had, shows us their beauty, and then throws a handful of salt in them.``

-Yuri Herrera