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Title: Alba Negra, a rare find.
Review: Jaime Espinel's "Alba Negra" is a rare find. Timely, insightful, powerful, it cries for a translation into English. A collection of short stories of different calibre and scope, strongly rooted in the modern existence, that touch the essence of the human spirit. His short story "Blanco Es", for example, is a parable that applies directly to the illusion of wealth brought about by the drug-boom of the 80's. It makes one of the most insightful portrayals I have seen of the then in the rise drug-lord Pablo Escobar. But more than that it shows the roller-coaster of emotions and the changes drugs and money bring about to an unsuspecting fishing village in the Caribbean. The way Espinel structures and tells this one story justifies this whole book. I wouldn't be surprised if we hear more about one of the most innovative voices in Latin American letters.
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