¿A dónde vas?

Fifteen stories, grouped as North and South, alternate between the United States, above all Philadelphia, and Colombia, above all Cali. Nobody here is winning at life: divorced men and women, solitary drifters hoping to meet someone on a Philadelphia train or in a Cali bar, quarrelling couples, young and old worn down by daily rows and drink. A bookseller in his early thirties, arrested at the wheel after drinking, must attend ten weeks of Monday-night classes for offenders while hiding the fact from a girlfriend who loathes alcohol. Termites devour the bed of a couple who cannot agree about children. An American photographer who arrived in Cali on a trip and never left spends his nights among the regulars of La Cima, a bar of artists who long for the city's 1970s. Irony and humour run through the book.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

235 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Colombia

First published

2015 by Alfaguara

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789588883632 (original)