Based on the relevant aspects of the novel genre, on theorists such as Kundera, Lukács, Pavel and Bajtín, this thesis studies the importance of the family, understood as a small society, that frames the development of the characters, their worldview and, to a large extent, their conflicts in the works of two contemporary authors. The study focuses on the novels Temporal (2013), Primero estaba el mar (1983), Los caballitos del diablo (2003) by Tomás González, Regresos (2014) and Los parientes de Ester (1978) by Luis Fayad, and deepens the way in which family ties develop through the narrative resources used by the authors to represent them. Aspects such as the narrator, the construction of the characters, the lack of communication, the changes in values, the preponderance of money are studied in this document to demonstrate the importance of the family environment in contemporary Colombian narrative.