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Book · 2002
Hotel en Shangri-Lá
Set during the inauguration of the fictional Megacentro Babilonia shopping mall, this award-winning collection of six interconnected short stories examines modern urban life. Through restrained dialogue and interwoven character perspectives, Octavio Escobar Giraldo depicts loneliness, chance encounters, and the alienation of contemporary city dwellers.
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He is one of the most innovative and award-winning writers in contemporary Colombian literature. With precise, agile, and clean prose, he has imbued his works with tremendous technical, thematic, and conceptual richness. His characters and settings are eminently urban and cosmopolitan, exuding the disillusionment of a chaotic and hopeless turn of the millennium.
RevistaArcadia.com on Semana Hotel en Shangri-La is a remarkable book of stories in which the reader is immersed in the very best vein of its author’s literature. Anonymous lives, mundane scenes, and dialogues stripped of epic grandeur inhabit this gallery of everyday fragments where Octavio Escobar Giraldo shines as the great narrator he is.
Fondo lector on Fondo de Lectura I read Hotel en Shangri-Lá, by Octavio Escobar Giraldo, a book of six stories that in tone and atmosphere connects somewhat with De Música Ligera, the collection that won him the National Literature Prize in 1998. The six stories take place in Megacentro Babilonia, a sprawling shopping mall that could be located in Bogotá, though the author never explicitly states so. All of them intersect tangentially.
Adriana Villegas Botero on Blog (cuasi) secreto de lectura
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