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"There are words that fall slowly, drop by drop, in a constant assault on the heart. They were never intrepid or courageous, simple, ordinary words… "Words of rain" is the story of Teo, an indigenous woman born in the Peruvian jungles of Ucayali, who has to travel to Asturias with her husband. During that journey of loss and nostalgia, Teo recalls her childhood in the Monasterio de Santa Catalina in Arequipa; the time spent in the jungle with her grandmother Tamia (rain in Quecha), who is the guardian of the secrets of nature and its rhythms. She weaves paths along which readers experience the landscapes of two very different settings: Peru and Asturias, in which the beautiful pulse of life beats. In Astiurias Teo lives a new life, but echoes of the past reach her even there through the letters sent by her friend Saulo, the alpaca herder who loved words…