Galapagos: A Novel

“Vélez stuns with her corporeal descriptions and baroque literary allusions. This is a knockout.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

From NYC-based Colombian writer Fátima Vélez comes debut novel Galapagos, following a group of bohemian artists who are dying of AIDS as they embark on a surreal final voyage through the Galapagos Islands, their bodies cloaked in the skins of the dead.

Lorenzo is a painter who doesn’t paint. He spends his days watching Jeanne Moreau films, luxuriating in his par...