This is how that story began: “She returned to the island on August 16 on the three o’clock ferry.
At the time, the Colombian was 72 years old and had recently overcome cancer. The first time the existence of this work was known was in 1999, when the author gave a reading of one of the stories at Casa América in Madrid, which he presented as a fragment and starting point for a future novel composed of five self-conclusive stories. The novel is made up of five short stories, closed and autonomous tales that form a unitary whole starring Ana Magdalena Bach, a cultured and still beautiful woman, on the verge of old age, who every August 16 travels to the small town where her mother is buried, in the cemetery of the poor, to tell her about her furtive and extramarital sexual encounters.
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