Aguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home after a three-day business trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He doesn`t know what has happened during his absence, & in his search for answers, he slowly uncovers profound & shadowy secrets hidden deep in his wife`s past. On one level, ” Delirium” reads like a detective story, as the reader pieces together information to find out what caused Agustina`s madness. But it is also a remarkably nuanced novel whose currents run much deeper, delving into the minds of four unique characters: Aguilar, a husband passionately in love with his wife & determined to rescue her from madness; Agustina, a beautiful woman from a Colombian upper-class family who is caught in the throes of delirium; Midas, Agustina`s former lover & a prominent drug-trafficker & money-launderer; & Nicolas, Agustina`s grandfather, who also went mad at the end of his life. Through the mixing of these distinct voices, Laura Restrepo creates a searing portrait of a society battered by war & corruption, as well as an intimate look at the daily lives of people struggling to stay sane in an unstable society. It is an ambitious & deeply affecting masterwork by one of Latin America`s most important contemporary voices.