Magic Eyes is a true-life novel about magic, violence, and the powers of seeing.
Told through the voices of Alicia Vásquez and her family, it is a vivid memoir
of love and revenge, survival and responsibility. Interweaving the story are
remarkable photographs by Wendy Ewald and the children she taught in the
Colombian village where she lived between 1982 and 1984. Through these
compelling images we witness the passage of childhood as both unique and
universal. Magic Eyes is richly evocative – a personal and social history of
Bogotá and rural Colombia, infused with a reverence for the truth and power of
storytelling. This new edition of the 1992 publication features essays by Alma
Guillermoprieto and Ingrid Rojas Contreras which offer contemporary reflections
on violence, inequality, and religion in the Andean countryside, and a new lens
on this timeless body of work.
