Estaba la pájara pinta sentada en el verde limón

Estaba la pájara pinta sentada en un verde limón it has become a milestone in Colombian literature and one of the most studied texts to understand the origin of the violence that still plagues this country today. Its fresh, agile and rich language has allowed the novel to endure and to be more valued every day by new generations. Albalucía Ángel managed to create with her non-transferable mastery a story that tells the life of a middle-class family and, simultaneously, two events that marked the history of Colombia: the murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán during the Bogotazo and the death of the guerrilla priest Camilo Towers.