Into the Deepest Lake
En la laguna más profunda.
Óscar Collazos
Las Tres Edades. 226.
 THE BOOK
Alexandra\\\'s grandmother starts to forget everything and her family begins concealing and dressing up the truth because they think that the little girl will not understand what is happening since she is only twelve years old. Alexandra is amused at first by her grandmother\\\'s transgressions of social norms, but she soon begins to wonder if this behaviour is a way to resist aging or maybe some kind of disease. As the grandmother\\\'s condition worsens and she sinks deeper into her amnesia, the little girl decides not to let her forget who she was: she shows her grandmother pictures and tells her stories of her past life that she heard from her parents. The love that unites the granddaughter and the grandmother makes communication between them possible. IN BRIEF
“The reality seems to have become an undeniable provocation for Colombian writers. Some, like García Márquez, tend to mystify it, others, like Óscar Collazos, to demystify it.”
Mario Benedetti THE AUTHOR
Oscar Collazos, (Bahia Solano, Colombia, 1942) is a novelist and essayist who managed the Center for Literary Research at Casa de las Americas in Havana between 1969 and 1970. Later on he lived in Barcelona for eighteen years, where he published a great part of his fiction work. He has also lived in Paris, Stockholm and Berlin. He currently lives in Cartagena de Indias and is a prominent columnist for El Tiempo. His works have been translated into French, German and Italian and his juvenile novel La ballena varada [The Beached Whale] (Siruela, 2000) sold more than 150,000 copies.
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