The microscopic precision with which Garcia Robayo delves into the human soul is striking. -El Pais
An unsettling novel about uncertainty, memories and fears, solitude, family relationships and hopes for the future. -Diario Popular
Robayo masterfully constructs a story of family ghosts and memories that put into question what it means to leave behind a country, family and friends for a new place. -Morning Star
Once again, a Colombian literary star has blended absurdism, realism and great linguistic skill to create a novel that may be neatly packaged but proves to contain multitudes. -Lunate
Completely engrossing. Garcia Robayo's best yet. -Sounds & Colours
Garcia Robayo has written a novel that, avoiding any complacency, situates us in the interstices of identity. -El Mundo
If for this narrator having a child is like 'resisting extinction' (...), novels like The Delivery fulfil a similar injunction to permanence: not to pass through the world without leaving anything behind. -El Pais
An intimate, mature work that confirms Margarita Garcia Robayo as one of the most promising Latin American writers today. -La Razon
The Colombian writer makes the daily routine of her protagonist seem like a disturbing sequence of events. -Expansion
A brilliant and exhaustive relationship with language that draws on a search for origins. -El Tiempo
Thoughts that achieve a sparking lucidity that contrasts with the bewilderment experienced by the main character. -La Nacion
You can't put it down until you find out what happens at the end. -Pagina/12
The Delivery is one of those novels that mark a before and an after, just as happens to its main character when she manages to open the crate sent by her sister. -Pagina/12
A book of contained intensity, full of glimpses more than certainties, which confirms the author as one of the leading voices of Latin American fiction. -El Siglo de Torreon
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Praise for Margarita Garcia Robayo
Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Prize (Finalist)
Garcia Robayo writes with caustic insight, brittle humour and a fair whack of cynicism (...) Holiday Heart is brilliant. -The Guardian
Understated, lyrical, and delivers its insights by means of acute observation. (5 stars) -The Arts Desk
Cunningly well achieved. -Irish Times
Holiday Heart is a poignant and searing story of love ending. -Gutter Magazine
Coombe's translation brilliantly captures the bite in Garcia Robayo's humour. -iNews
One of Colombia's greatest living writers. -The Monthly Booking
Brilliantly dramatises the disjunction between an idealized picture of life like sitting on a sunny beach and the reality of that life like getting sand caught in your teeth. -Lonesome Reader
Best Fiction Books of 2017 -New York Times (Espanol)
Darkly funny throughout, this examination of two lives will stay with you long after you read the final words and lay the book down. -Lunate
Every sentence in the book seems to be written with a scalpel infused with acid. -Morning Star
Acute, provocative, concise and raw. -Translating Women
An incredibly insightful portrayal of a disintegrating marriage...provides a sharp-eyed view of estrangement and personal identity. -Book Riot
Frightening, alluring, and inescapable. -Books and Bao
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Casa de las Americas Prize (Winner)
Society of Authors Valle-Inclan Prize (Shortlist)
Garcia Robayo's prose bristles with restrained energy and a wry humour which captures the disaffection of her characters. -The Times Literary Supplement
[Fish Soup] is a gorgeous, blackly humorous look into the lives of Colombians struggling to find their place in society, both at home and abroad. -Publishers Weekly, starred review
A remarkable genre-bending effort. -The Guardian
The tackiness of the Caribbean coast and its discontents are marvellously rendered. -The Times Literary Supplement
If you're a fan of Ottessa Moshfegh or Melissa Broder, then this is for you. -The Guardian
An evocative collection that conveys the potency of desire in even the most ordinary lives. -Kirkus
Garcia Robayo is building one of the most solid and interesting oeuvres in Latin American literature. -Juan Cardenas , author of ORNAMENTAL
Her stories combine the atmosphere of Desperate Housewives, Hemingway's iceberg theory and a memorable, bittersweet ending. -Jorge Carrion , author of BOOKSHOPS
Margarita shows sharp insight into contemporary life. Her voice speaks with surreptitious irony and sophisticated psychological perception. She is the creator of an exceptional poetics of displacement. -Juan Villoro , author of THE WITNESS
There are very few writers who can challenge expectations the way Margarita Garcia Robayo does. Margarita is simply one of the best of the new generation that respects, yet no longer identifies with, the Latin American Boom. -Mariana Enriquez , author of THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
This is a text written from within the belly of the beast. (...) One of the most essential books of the year. -Asymptote
Garcia Robayo's prose is concise and startling, her voice versatile and capable of packing a serious punch. -LA Review of Books
One of the most potent figures of contemporary Latin American literature. -ABC Cultural
Full of everyday details that reveal the most vulnerable aspects of feminine subjectivity. -La Nacion
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