I just finished My Colombian War by Sylvana Paternostro. It's non-fiction, about a Colombian-born, US-educated journalist returning to her homeland to try to understand all the craziness (basically civial war) going on there. I'm ashamed to admit how ignorant I was about that country's history/current situation. What a tragic mess. (I picked up the book because I just finished my first semester of Spanish at the local U, and my professor was a Colombian woman.)