Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart
the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla
and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that
confirms Héctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American
literature today.
Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm
hidden in the mountains of Colombia. The land has survived several
generations. It is the landscape of their happiest memories but it is
also where they have had to face the siege of violence and terror,
restlessness and flight.
In The Farm, Héctor Abad illuminates the vicissitudes of a family and
of a people, as well as of the voices of these three siblings,
recounting their loves, fears, desires, and hopes, all against a
dazzling backdrop. We enter their lives at the moment when they are
about to lose the paradise on which they built their dreams and their
reality.