Publisher Review

“The Vortex is the most influential Colombian novel before Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One hundred years on, its themes – neo-slavery, human trafficking, violence against women, indigenous rights, Amazon deforestation – remain timely” -The Times Literary Supplement

“The most transcendental book ever published on the continent.”” -Horacio Quiroga , author of JUNGLE TALES

“Rereading The Vortex today… is an urgent necessity.”” -Sylvia Molloy , author of DISLOCATIONS

“When literary prose acquires the extraordinary power that Rivera’s does, it is difficult to avoid the impression that certain novels not only represent a world but rather bring it into existence.”” -Martin Kohan , author of CONFESSION

“The Vortex, the quintessential ‘jungle novel’, is one of the great Latin American fictions of the twentieth century.”” -Juan Gabriel Vasquez , author of THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING

“This thing that they call The Vortex…”” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez , author of LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

“The novel in particular helped to integrate the jungle – so far and so different from the country’s Andean heartlands – into the national psyche. The author’s concern with the exploitation of land and people would be echoed by Romulo Gallegos, Miguel Angel Asturias, Mario Vargas Llosa and Garcia Marquez.” -The Times Literary Supplement