A deadly fight over a woman leads to two related families torn apart by blood, until one man is forced to turn his back on his heritage to keep the woman he loves, and two women risk everything to secure a future for their sons, in a story set against the backdrop of the rise of Colombia's drug cartels
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Born in Colombia, <b>Laura Restrepo</b> has been a professor of literature at the National University of Colombia, as well as publisher of the weekly magazine Semana. In 1984, she was a member of the Peace Commission that brought the Colombian government and the guerrillas to the negotiating table. She is the author of several novels, among them <b>The Angel of Galilea</b> (Crown, 1998).
Sicilian history of The Godfather rewritten by Gabriel García Márquez, or West Side Story reinterpreted by Isabel Allende, and you have a sense of Laura Restrepo's unforgettable novel of the making of Colombia's drug cartels.<br> <br>Written in a unique, mesmerizing style of questions and narratives--with the immediacy and color of oral tradition, <b>Leopard in the Sun</b> is an operatic Latin tragedy, complete with chorus of local gossips and popular legend. It begins with a fight over a woman, when Nando Barragán kills his best friend and cousin Adriano Monsalve in a passionate, drunken delirium. As a result, the wise family patriarch separates the two families forever--the Barragáns will hold sway over the city; the Monsalves the port. Each year, on the day known as the zeta, and only on that day, they will have the opportunity to avenge the previous year's deaths--and each year, the women are not yet out of their black
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