"One of the great novels to have been written in our language"
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA "Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian He
thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke
made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen... In
October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera
is attending a retrospective of his films in Barcelona. It's a
difficult time for him: his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died;
his marriage is in crisis; and his country has rejected peace
agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In
the course of a few turbulent and intense days, Sergio will recall
the events that marked the family's life, and especially his
father's, his sister Marianella's and his own. From the Spanish
Civil War to the exile of his republican family in Latin America,
and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla
movements of 1960s Latin America, not only will do we discover a
series of adventures extraordinary by any standards, but also a
devastating portrait of the forces that for half a century turned
the world upside down and created the one we now inhabit.
Retrospective is a revelatory and unforgettable novel. Translated
from the Spanish by Anne McLean
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