GalapagosBy: Ftima Vlez Vlez stuns with her corporeal descriptions and baroque literary allusions. This is a knockout. Publishers Weekly (starred review) From NYC based Colombian writer Ftima Vlez comes debut novel Galapagos, following a group of bohemian artists who are dying of AIDS as they embark on a surreal final voyage through the Galapagos Islands, their bodies cloaked in the skins of the dead. Lorenzo is a painter who doesnt paint. He spends his days