![]() These voices were also ghosts, like the ones that haunt Ana. Her illness, sometimes called “headaches,” caused her to hear voices and lose concentration. In 1941, Virginia Woolf took her own life, understanding that she couldn’t go on as a writer, or as a woman, or as a wife. So, she takes up more meaningful and real conversations with the ghosts that inhabit the darkness of the mountain-and her past. In Ana’s present, the people she loves exist as fragments of text messages and phone calls. Calls and messages are broken off, incomplete-failed attempts at connection. Ana has a cell phone with which she tries, in vain, to get through to them. Another is her husband Luis, who is off in Europe having some kind of affair with a woman much younger than Ana-so young, in fact, that she is closer in age to Luis and Ana’s daughter Raquel, a college student with whom Ana has lost all contact. One of them is her sister, who lives in France and must undergo a risky operation. Thoughts of those who were once part of her life take shape as ghosts that provide her with destabilizing company. She has taken refuge in her country house ten thousand feet above sea level to write. ![]() But, with a descriptive and observational style, Ana gradually allows glimpses that her peaceful existence is merely an outward appearance.Īna writes. ![]() Ana seems to enjoy her solitude and the contact she has with nature on the rugged paramo, where the cold, wind, and rustling of the woods serve as the backdrop. Its central character is Ana, a woman that lives in the silence and obscurity of a mountain in the Andean highlands. Her new book is an introspective work that reads like a psychological mystery. La carretera será un final terrible is the first novel by Colombian writer Andrea Mejía, who made her debut with the celebrated short story collection La naturaleza seguía propagándose en la oscuridad.
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