The Divine Boys

From acclaimed Colombian author Laura Restrepo comes a prize-winning novel inspired by a true crime that shattered a community and exposed the dark recesses of toxic masculinity and privilege.

Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass.

As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined.

Hauntingly true, this daringly told work of fiction explores the tragic dynamic between genders, social classes, and victim and victimizer, and between five men whose intolerable transgressions will shake the conscience of a country.

Laura Restrepo was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She has written numerous bestselling and prize-winning novels, including Leopard in the Sun, The Angel of Galilea, and Delirium. Published in more than twenty languages, Ms. Restrepo is the recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, the Arzobispo San Clemente Award, the VII Premio Alfaguara de Novela, the Grinzane Cavour Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Prix France Culture.

Carolina De Robertis is the author of Cantoras, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Gods of Tango, winner of a Stonewall Book Award; Perla; and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain, which received Italy's Rhegium Julii Prize. She is the editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. Her award-winning translations of Spanish literature include the writings of Alejandro Zambra, Ray Loriga, Raquel Lubartowski, Pedro Almodóvar, and Marcos Aguinis, among others. Her own books have been translated into seventeen languages. She is the recipient of Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Stonewall Book Award, and numerous other honors. Ms. De Robertis was named to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 list of writers and thinkers who are “shaping the future of culture.” She teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University.