A dazzling novel grounded in nature, its wonders and its mysteries.

«Todo era un conjunto exuberante de visiones, como si el Nauyaca y las montañas y la naturaleza entera hubieran bebido el fermento alucinante».

La sed se va con el río tells the story of people and nature’s flow in the paths of the Nauyaca River, a place nestled in the mountains that only water and wind dare to cross. Jeremías, the man who secretly keeps the aguardiente de bejuco that gives some life to the villagers, has disappeared.

Jeremías is lost, and with him are all the people, who only seek to relieve their thirst in the midst of this vivacious landscape where humanity is rare. A beautiful poetic prose fed directly from dreams and loaded with images that are open truths, simplicity and hallucinations. With these, Andrea Mejía confirms why she has been one of the most striking and exceptional voices of the current Colombian literary scene.

In each book she combines, always in an unexpected way, the poetic word, the narrative word and the thinking word. Giuseppe Caputo

At this point it is impossible for me to know if Andrea Mejía lives in this world or in the world of her characters, with Patas de Mirlo, Heraquio, Jeremías and Lidia. A world where time is ancient and begins again and again, where she listens to that river that drags, hides, lulls. A river that stays in us and we can never stop hearing. Natalia García Freire

A soft but assertive style, full of poignant images.Paloma Rodríguez, El Mundo, Spain

(…) the purest Latin surrealism. Pilar Martín, Agencia EFE

Andrea Mejía manages to turn the mundane into a vibrant, hypnotic literary world, capable of awakening our five senses. La Sexta, Spain

A hypnotic effect that at no time breaks the spell when reading. Pablo Concha, Libros y Letras

There are books that, when we close the last page and return to contemplate, incredulous, its cover, we cannot find any word other than “beauty”. Yes. We have witnessed, in its reading, one of those experiences that are given to us in dribs and drabs in life. That is what happens with Andrea Mejía. Álvaro Castillo Granada

Her voice is not subscribed to any trend. Hers is one of those unique, beautiful, imperfect insights, full of poetry, that enhance any tradition. Juan David Correa

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