Cartagena is a 2015 Spanish-language novel by Uruguayan writer Claudia Amengual.

[1] Set in Montevideo and Cartagena de Indias, it tells the story of a journalist living his midlife crisis who takes wrong decisions with disastrous consequences.

Thirty years later, he travels to Cartagena in search of a new opportunity.

[2] Notably, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez appears as an important character in the last pages.

[3] This novel constitutes a posthumous tribute to the Colombian Nobel-Prize winner.