El cielo está vacío

The protagonist of this story receives an unexpected email from a former lover, awakening memories of a past episode: as a young woman, she left her family home in the heart of Colombia for a time to go to London and try her luck far from her country. There, she begins an ambiguous relationship with an Englishman twice her age. Soon, love and desire become intertwined with a mutual, disturbing, and asymmetrical dependence that will ultimately leave its mark on them both. The Sky Is Empty is a coming-of-age story about sexual awakening, about igniting the fire in a society determined to extinguish it, about feeling invisible and out of place, about how we become who we truly are and the things we must relinquish to achieve it. The novel delves into the loss of youth, loneliness, the inability to communicate, the difficulties faced by immigrants, sexual blackmail, and the eternal search for the father figure and for love as a weapon that can both exalt and destroy humanity.