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The Wolf’s Ears / Les oreilles du loup
From the top his tall trees, a fiercely free young boy of about five, with his red hair in the wind and his yellow socks pulled up high on his red pants, watches the shadows of the world of adults and his father’s mad ghost. Jolted about in the turmoil of their parents’ separation, his little sister and him start roaming with their mother from the city to the high plateaus to the jungle and the Andes, searching for survival, for a brighter spot. The sensations and images he percieves with his tiger’s eyes, the violence and misfortunes, but most of all, the power of the boy’s love for his mother and sister and the beauty, compose an impressionisitic portrait of a sensual and wounded Colombia.
TITLE : The Wolf’s Ears / Les oreilles du loup
AUTHOR : Antonio Ungar
COUNTRY : Colombia
NUMBER OF PAGES : 132
SOLD TO: All rights available except for the territories of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Central America and for Arabic and Hebrew languages
ON THIS BOOK
Every single line of The Wolf’s Ears shows signs of the birth of a great writer.
Olivier Mony | Figaro Magazine

EXCERPT
Deux jours ont passé, et je suis déjà là. Dans l’autocar. On peut me voir. Bercé entre les éclats de rire de commères inconnues. Heureux, regardant le monde, comprenant que le rythme mesquin de la ville du froid peut être remplacé par ce rythme asyncopé de la chaleur et des virages, par ce temps qu’on ne peut prévoir, entre un éclat de rire de femme et un autre bien meilleur. Il faut encore deux heures pour parvenir au dernier village, au mythique puinabe, deux heures qui se transforment en quatre à cause de ce que l’on croit au début être une panne et qui est en réalité un barrage de soldats verts qui passent deux heures à monter et descendre du bus, à attendre des ordres par radio qu’ils ne reccoivent jamais. Je finis par m’ennuyer de regarder leurs mitraillettes et leurs uniformes sur ces longs corps et ces têtes de singes effrayés. J’en profite pour changer de place (j’ai passé tout le trajet à regarder le gros profil d’une matrone qui n’arrête pas de manger des cacahuètes). Je me glisse dans l’espace qui reste entre son pantalon bleu et le siège orange et je longe le couloir vers l’arrière (devant sont assises maman et ma sœur) jusqu’à ce que je trouve une place vide à côté de ma cousine Aldana.
Aldana, on l’appelle cousine, mais en réalité c’est la plus jeune des cousines de maman, et parce qu’elle était la dernière maman l’a fait changer de catégorie et l’a incluse dans celle de mes vingt-six cousins, dont le plus âgé a treize ans. Aldana a dix-neuf ans et c’est la plus belle des créatures vivantes (personne, animal ou plante) qui existe.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A writer and a journalist, Antonio Ungar is part of the « Bogotá 39 » list which gathered in 2007 the 39 best Latin American authors under 39 years of age. He was born in 1974 in Bogotá and lived in Palestine where he used to write and work as a corespondent for Latin-American magazines and newspapers, he lives now in Bogotá. His work as a journalist was awarded the Simon Bolívar Prize in 2006. He has published two short stories collections Trece circos comunes (Norma, 1999) and De ciertos animales tristes (Norma, 2000), and another novel, Zanahorias voladoras (Alfaguara, 2004). His next novel Miranda will be published next months by Anagrama.

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