"Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient
pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine "Juan
Gabriel Vasquez . . . has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary
grandmaster of Colombia" ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of Books A
morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author
of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins
(shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019). A renowned
photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow
guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a regimental
reunion obliges a Korean War veteran to confront a shameful secret.
And in the title story, an internet search for a book published in
1887 leads to the discovery of the life of a remarkable woman:
Aurelia de Leon, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the
Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of her adoptive
country's deep conservatism. The characters in Songs for the Flames
are all men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly,
sometimes tangentially - but the lives of all of them are
irrevocably changed by the experience. Translated from the Spanish
by Anne McLean
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