Colombia - An End to Solitude?
Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez visits Bogota to share aspects of modern urban life that have inspired his work.
Forty years ago, the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote of the afflictions of Colombia, his country of birth. Now a new generation of Colombian writers are trying to find a way out of that 'solitude' in order to describe the complex, violent but exuberant reality they live in.
Novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez takes us with him to the Colombian capital Bogota to share the elements of 21st century urban life in South America that have inspired his work.
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- Sun 3 Feb 200821:30BBC Radio 3
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