The Storyteller by Julianne Pachico

Julianne Pachico's story is set in Medellin, the city renowned for the notorious drug cartel of the same name.

A Canadian woman is invited to dinner at a Colombian doctor's family home.

Events unfold awkwardly across the evening and it won't be long before a series of secrets and lies will be exposed shattering the lives of all.

Read by Joseph Balderrama.

** Julianne Pachico is a British-American writer who grew up in Cali, Colombia.

Her debut collection, Lucky, was published to critical acclaim early in 2017.

Each of the linked stories is set in Colombia between 1993 and 2013 which were especially violent years during the country's long conflict. The stories capture the harsh reality of growing up in a place where the guerrilla insurgency is never far from view, and at the same time they have a lyrical and hallucinatory quality to them that is both compelling and unsettling.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2017.