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A New York Times Editors’ Choice * One of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2023 * One of Chicago Public Library’s Favorite Books of the Year * A LitHub Best Book of 2023 From the author of Infinite Country—a New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club...

Mauro ed Elena, innamorati da adolescenti davanti a una bancarella del mercato di Bogotà, hanno lasciato il paese alla volta degli Stati Uniti, insieme alla loro primogenita Karina, nella speranza di costruire una vita migliore. Qui sono nati anche altri due figli, Nando e Talia. Ma poi Mauro è stato deportato e tutto è andato in pezzi. Nonostante l’amore, la famiglia si è spaccata in due: due paesi diversi e due lingue diverse.

Fresh, accomplished, and fearless, Vida marks the debut of Patricia Engel, a young author of immense talent and promise. Vida follows a single narrator, Sabina, as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong, protective, but embattled family.

Lita del Cielo, the daughter of two Colombian orphans who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire, has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before returning to work in the family business. She moves into a gently crumbling Left Bank mansion known as “The House of Stars”, where a spirited but bedridden Countess Séraphine rents out rooms to young women visiting Paris to work, study, and, unofficially, to find love.