ARGONAUT BOOKS

"Eight years ago, González was branded 'the best-kept secret of Colombian literature' . . . He has since become one of his country's foremost novelists, and In the Beginning Was the Sea - this taut, uncompromising study of the faultlines in all of us - is earning a wide readership. Perhaps it's time to call him something else."-The Guardian "In the Beginning Was the Sea [is] a book that simultaneously works as a political parable, a novel, and a mournful confessional […] written in a fashion meant to hold up his own grief and disorientation as its own strange flower, an emotional germin...Read More