"Todo era un conjunto exuberante de visiones, como si el Nauyaca y las monta as y la naturaleza entera hubieran bebido el fermento alucinante". La sed se va con el r o relata el fluir de la existencia y la naturaleza en las veredas del r o Nauyaca, un lugar enclavado en las monta as que s lo se atreven a recorrer el agua y el viento. De all ha desaparecido Jerem as, el hombre que guarda en secreto el aguardiente de bejuco que les da algo de vida a los habitantes de la regi n. Perdido est Jerem as al igual que el pueblo entero, que s lo busca aliviar su sed en medio de ese paisaje vivo en donde lo humano es lo remoto. Con una bell sima prosa po tica alimentada directamente de los sue os y cargada de im genes que son verdades di fanas, sencillez, alucinaciones, Andrea Mej a confirma por qu ha sido una de las voces m s llamativas y excepcionales del panorama de la literatura colombiana actual. "En cada libro amalgama, siempre de manera inesperada, la palabra po tica, la palabra narrativa y la palabra pensante". Giuseppe Caputo ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "It was all an exuberant collection of visions, as if the Nauyaca and the mountains and nature in its entirety would have drunk the hallucinatory fermentation." Thirst Leaves with the River tells of the flow of existence and nature along the river Nauyaca, a place nestled in the mountains, where only water and wind dare visit. It is there that Jerem as disappeared, the man who secretly stores the bejuco firewater that breathes some life into the people of the region. Jerem as is lost, same as the whole town, only seeking to ease his thirst in the middle of this living landscape, where human is remote. With a most beautiful poetic prose, nurtured directly by dreams and ladened with images that are diaphanous truths, simplicity, hallucinations, Andrea Mej a confirms why she is one of the most striking and exceptional voices in Colombian literature today. "In each book, she fuses--always unexpectedly--the word poetic, the word narrative, and the word thinking." --Giuseppe Caputo
