The Dark BrideThe Dark Bride is the breakout novel from the award winning Colombian author of Leopard In the Sun. Full of wit and intelligence, tragedy and compassion, The Dark Bride takes us deep into the Colombian jungle to a magical world of glittering lights, dangerous liaisons, and illicit pleasures. Sayonara is a young and beautiful Indian girl. She is also a puta, a prostitute, who lives and works in the remote village of Tora. Once a month, oil riggers from