Event 14
Melba Escobar in conversation with Ana Cristina Restrepo
Las huérfanas
Teatro Santamaría
Melba Escobar is a columnist and writer, the author of the young adult novel Johnny y el mar, the non-fiction Cuando éramos felices pero no lo sabíamos, and the novels Duermevela, La casa de la belleza, La mujer que hablaba sola and her recent Las huérfanas. This book portrays Myriam de Nogales, the author’s mother: “a woman, unattainable in her skills and talents, passionate, caustic, wounded and wounding, brilliant”. Melba Escobar will talk to Ana Cristina Restrepo about this novel that delves into the family past, origins, the creation of a female identity, and the place of the dead, who never die in the minds of the living.
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