Published : 2021 || Format : print || Location : Colombia ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.. Thoughts : Infinite Country follows two characters - young Talia, who at the beginning of this book, escapes a girl’s reform school in North Colombia so that she can make her previously booked flight to the US. Before she can do that, she needs to travel many miles to reach her father and get her ticket to the rest of her family. As we follow Talia’s treacherous journey south, we learn about how she ended up in the reform school in the first place and why half her family resides in the US. Infinite Country tells the story of her family through the other protagonist, El
'As matters stand,' he explained, 'medical science says that you are too gone to come back. There will be good days. And bad ones. I will always be next to you. But I don’t want to lead you up the path. You have six months. Seven at most. My heart is heavy, but that is the truth.' When I read that this book was about two people falling in love after a series of letter exchanges, I wanted to read it. Miklós has been given a death sentence by his doctor - his TB is expected to kill him in six months. Miklós is in denial however and is foolishly optimistic that he will not die. So he pens identical letters to 117 women under the age of thirty who were born in his hometown and are also convalescing in various Swedish camps. Some of them write back, among them a woman named Lili. He is immediately charmed by her and decides that she will be his wife. Thus begins a long session of letters flying back and forth while both Miklós and Lili face the realities of their illne