These limbless Barbies are part of the war.
They're left with this box of Barbies that have decapitated limbs and. has this habit of sitting in front of the television and chewing the limbs of the Barbies. On the way violence seeps into the lives of children We saw it on the television, and it happened to us, or it happened to people that we knew. it was a time when violence was just a common part of our lives. we have jungle, we have the coast and we have all these hilly, beautiful villages where there's coffee plants everywhere. There was a duality in the country I think - it's incredibly beautiful. On what it was like to live in Colombia in the '80s and '90s And when I finally sat down to write I just kept returning to that story and I kept returning to my indebtedness for that act of kindness. And that act of incredible kindness and compassion is something that didn't leave me for many years. She was threatened into acting against our family. This Colombian coming of age story - two stories, really - tells the saga of sisters Chula and Cassandra, growing up in a gated community in Bogotá, and Petrona, a teenager from the city's slums who comes to live with their family as a maid. We know what they look like."Ĭontreras and her sister weren't kidnapped - and this story of what didn't happen has inspired her first novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree.
Contreras didn't know it at the time, but her mother was receiving threatening phone calls detailing the routines of her daughters' lives: "They got off the bus at this hour.
Violence reigned in Colombia under drug lord Pablo Escobar - bombings, kidnappings and assassinations were commonplace. Growing up as a child in Bogotá, Ingrid Rojas Contreras was almost the victim of a terrible crime. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Fruit of the Drunken Tree Author Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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