About the Book

4th May 2012....The collapse of a coastal city and a convention centre. Nine ecology experts entrapped in the debris… & a perfect crime! A murder in the midst of chaos that the media monitors, believing, it is the rescue efforts that reality TV is showcasing. But the debris becomes the final resting place of a passionate drama in a bourgeois Peruvian family as events unfold, bringing forth the complexity of human nature. A gripping tale of heroism and survival, against the backdrop of our worst nightmares of an environmental apocalypse, vividly brought to life. A captivating narrative by a professor-politician in a portrayal that is innovative and stylishly contemporary, heralding an exciting genre of environmental and multicultural literature in Latin America.

About the Author

Juan Alfredo Pinto Saavedra was the Colombian Ambassador to India (2007-2013). Having studied economics and administration, Pinto Saavedra's (b. 1953) encounter with fiction came about in his many travels to various continents. He started writing chronicles of his trips and later wrote a series of stories for a book entitled The Lotus Flower: Stories from Asia. This book was published in 2010 in Spanish and was later translated into English and into Hindi by the Sahitya Akademi.