'Memoria por correspondencia' is the story of a girl who spent her childhood locked in dark and stinking rooms in Bogotá, surviving in the purest misery isolated in a convent. The book, which collects the twenty-three letters that Emma Reyes wrote to her friend, the intellectual Germán Arciniegas, was published in Colombia in 2012 and garnered great success.
One finishes the reading breathlessly, and wonders how that girl could continue living, but above all she wants to know how the adult Emma Reyes painted.