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A view of a blank wall within a bookshop that has an interior window through which books and shelves filled with books in the next room are visible, to the left are two framed hand-drawn portraits. — *Fig 1. At the Wilborada 1047 Bookshop in Bogotá.*

La casa de Bernarda Alba (F. García Lorca). The grip of conformity.
Le città invisibili (Italo Calvino). A ruler and an explorer imagine empire.
Den allvarsamma leken (H. Söderberg). Love in Dear Old Stockholm.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt). The banality of evil.
L'Étranger (Albert Camus). Ennui, the sun, a revolver.
Faithful and Virtuous Night (Louise Glück). A journey, a winding path.
L'Homme-au-Bâton (Ernest Pépin). Guadeloupe, haunted by violence.
The Invisible Computer (Donald Norman). When computers take-over.
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison). Exile and personhood in Black America.
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë). Hardship, freedom in the Moorlands.
King Lear (William Shakespeare). Folly, tempests, and responsibility.
Madame Bovary (G. Flaubert). Naïvité, caprice, angst, and injustice.
Les misérables (Victor Hugo). Injustice, redemption, sin, sewage.
La muerte de Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes). Ambition and revolution.
Il nome della rosa (U. Eco). Within a labyrinthic library, the forbidden fruit.
The Passions and the Interests (A. Hirschman). Sin, virtue, capital.
Salón de belleza (Mario Bellatin). Epidemic, fish tanks, and limbo.
Solange (Willy Kyrklund). When one only wants to dance.
Space Invaders (Nona Fernández). Childhood and dictatorship in Chile.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (R. Pirsig). Chautauquas.