The Colombian writer Andrea Salgado will arrive in our country in order to present "The Dream of the Tree", his most recent work published by the editorial interZona.

Salgado will meet on Thursday 16 March from 18.30 in Céspedes Books, venue located on Avenida Álvarez Thomas 873, where he will dialogue with his audience together with Katya Adaui and Betina González.

Considered one of the most original voices in contemporary Colombian literature., Salgado's new work is also the first edition of interZona in Colombia. This publication was presented at the Bogotá and Medellín Book Fairs in September 2022 and now it arrives at Argentine bookstores.

Composed of three parts that work independently and at the same time are integrated into a whole, "The dream of the tree" can be read as a journey towards the body and identity from the multiplication of stories and narrative voices. Written in the heat of the beginning of the pandemic, "The bolero of the body and reason" opens the book with a cross between the fantastic story and the essay discourse to tell the unfolding between the body and reason, two universes that only come together separately.

The second story of the book, "The Banana Flower", retraces the life of a girl raised in the environment of a peasant town, from their early years to late adolescence, with brief and forceful scenes. Between desire and religion, between devotion to the father and (of)identification with mother, discover the adult world and the roles established between men and women, to embark on the search for a third way.

"The dream of the tree", story that closes and gives the book its title, against the backdrop of the outbreak of the National Strike that took place in Colombia in 2021. The pain for what happens in the streets corresponds to the severe discomfort that the narrator feels in the womb. And it is from the physical pain that he recognizes his body again, to recognize itself as reason and engender itself.