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Born in Peru, childhooded in Africa and currently living in Germany, Ritti Soncco's writing moves freely between magic-realism and autobiography. In her works, Ritti Soncco collects the realities and dreams of the many countries she lived in, mixing them into free-spirited literature that feels like home.

 

"Ritti Soncco writes in the tradition of Kafka" (Neu-Ulmer Zeitung).

 

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Dec 2

Ritti Soncco will be traveling through Perú until the end of February 2012 to collect information for her next novel. Follow her writing journey on her blog http://rittisoncco.wordpress.com !

 

 

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Ayllu

All month, Rose has been saying: “You can’t always get what you want. But if you’re lucky, you’ll get what you need.”

Cusco wasn’t at all what I expected – but from the beginning, neither was Peru. And in hindsight, I feel almost naive to have thought that it wouldn’t dive in so deeply, wouldn’t move in so thoroughly to try to change my life.

 

I went to Cusco expecting to meditate, to meet the Q’eros, to practise my Quechua. What happened instead was a very different story - and sometimes we people can be stubborn when it comes to a change of plans, to an unprecedented development. I’ll admit I kept looking to the mountains expecting a Deus ex machina, but the Deus ex machina was happening all around me, on the ground – in the form of an ayllu, a spiritual family.

They say “travelling is all about the people you meet”. If that is the definition, then our journey really began in Lima. This is the story...

 

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