{"id":78438,"date":"2023-04-03T20:15:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&p=78438"},"modified":"2023-07-19T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T22:05:40","slug":"love-in-four-dots","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/love-in-four-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in Four Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Military Jail that housed Fredrico in Papay\u00e1n is now the Hotel Monasterio. “The meager diet converted the strongest into an invalid…”<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Love in Four Dots<\/strong> is based on coded love letters rich with political intrigue hidden in an 1844 print edition of Don Quixote<\/strong>. Two young lovers, Sofia and Federico, traded the book back and forth between the military prison where Federico was held prisoner and the city of Popay\u00e1n, Colombia during the One Thousand Days War (1899\u20131902). It would be their only means of communication for the better half of a year.<\/p>\n

The novel, while a work of fiction, serves also as a micro-history of this horrendous civil and military conflict and its impact on the protagonists, their families and the Colombian people as a whole during this tragic period in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

With pencils in hand, Sof\u00eda and Federico used two methods to communicate in secret: one using simple dots between the lines of the text under certain letters, and the other somewhat more encrypted, revealed in the subtext of Cervantes\u2019 dialogues between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza read alongside the text with dots.<\/p>\n

Using the historical background in combination with the hidden love letters, the author travels in his imagination, filling the voids in the lives of Sof\u00eda and Federico, guiding the reader to an unexpected climax that reveals the ties between the characters and the various elements of the plot.<\/p>\n

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Copies of Love in Four Dots<\/strong> will be signed and available in Spanish or English after April 23. If you desire a copy in Spanish, please make a request in the “Notes” section when checking out, otherwise the English translation will be sent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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