Amazon.com description: Product Description: La vida de Maria Paz dara un giro vertiginoso cuando descubra que el verdadero horror Maria Paz es una joven latina que, como tantas otras, ha llegado a Estados Unidos persiguiendo la utopia. Pero el sueno americano se convierte en pesadilla cuando es acusada del asesinato de su marido, un policia blanco, y condenada a prision.Sin embargo, la vida de Maria Paz dara un giro vertiginoso cuando descubra que el verdadero horror, el que pondra a prueba todo su temple, esta esperandola fuera de las rejas.Laura Restrepo nos atrapa con este thriller trepidante, magnificamente construido, terrorifico pero tambien divertido. Un homenaje a la mujer y una critica feroz al mundo occidental capitalista y a sus falsos suenos de prosperidad.
Maria Paz is a young woman from Latin America who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she works to prove her innocence.
But the dangers of prison are not her only threat: gaining freedom would mean facing an even greater horror lying in wait outside the prison gates, one that will stop at nothing to get her back.
Can María Paz survive this double peril in a land where danger and desperation are always one step behind, and safety and happiness seem just out of reach?