Author: Laura Restrepo
- Fiction
- Alfaguara
- ISBN: 9789587041453
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Winner of the Premio Alfaguara de novela in 2004, the plot revolves around Aguilar, an unemployed professor, and his search for his missing wife. Set in Restrepo's native Colombia, the novel elicits the country's tropes of drug dealing and money laundering but also explores the daily lives of people struggling to survive.