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Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner of
the Alfaguara Prize Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 'A
powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he
didn't choose to fight' The Times 'The story is compelling but
through Vasquez's vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by
the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting
... A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in
a country scrabbling to regain its soul' Financial Times No sooner
does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in
Bogota than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a
secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows
until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette.
Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner. Yammara's
investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s,
marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped
Colombia in a living nightmare.
"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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Retrospective (Paperback)
Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Translated by Anne McLean
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"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
* National Bestseller
* Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of
the "New York Times Book Review"
* One of NPR's 6 Best Books of the Summer
* "Esquire "recommends "The Sound of Things Falling" "if you read
only one book this month"
* Starred early reviews from" Publishers Weekly," "Booklist,"
"Library Journal," and "Kirkus"
* Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others
From a global literary star comes a prize-winning tour de force -
an intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez has been hailed not only as one of South
America's greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most
acclaimed writers of his generation. In this gorgeously wrought,
award-winning novel, Vasquez confronts the history of his home
country, Colombia. In the city of Bogota, Antonio Yammara reads an
article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once
owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The
article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar's
Medellin cartel and government forces played out violently in
Colombia's streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio
witnessed a friend's murder, an event that haunts him still. As he
investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and
his friend's family have been shaped by his country's recent
violent past. His journey leads him all the way back to the 1960s
and a world on the brink of change: a time before narco-trafficking
trapped a whole generation in a living nightmare. Vasquez is "one
of the most original new voices of Latin American literature,"
according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and "The Sound
of Things Falling "is his most personal, most contemporary novel to
date, a masterpiece that takes his writing--and will take his
literary star--even higher.
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Reputations (Paperback)
Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Translated by Anne McLean
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A taut new novel by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things
Falling - 'one of the most original voices of Latin American
literature', Mario Vargas Llosa 'An affecting, carefully paced work
of psychological realism' Times Literary Supplement As Colombia's
famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through
downtown Bogota before a public celebration of his career in the
grand Teatro Colon, he contemplates the start of his professional
life; how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing
caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching
consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure from his past, now
a young woman, emerges from the crowd and forces Mallarino to
confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime
ago, calling into question his reputation and the value of his
life's work.
From the author of "The Sound of Things Falling," a "brilliant
new novel" ("New York Times Book Review") and one of the most
buzzed about books of the year
"One of the most original new voices of Latin American
literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature
"Unlike anything written by his Latin American contemporaries"
("The Financial Times") "The Informers" secured Juan Gabriel
Vasquez's place as one of the most original and exuberantly
talented novelist working today. Now he returns with an ingenious
new novel of historical invention.
On the day of Joseph Conrad's death in 1924, the Colombian-born
Jose Altamirano begins to write and cannot stop. Many years before,
he confessed to Conrad his life's every delicious detail--from his
country's heroic revolutions to his darkest solitary moments. Those
intimate recollections became Nostromo, a novel that solidified
Conrad's fame and turned Altamirano's reality into a work of
fiction. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means
clear--Nostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back
into existence.
As the destinies of real empires collide with the murky realities
of imagined ones, Vasquez takes us from a flourishing
twentieth-century London to the lawless fury of a blooming Panama
and back in a labyrinthine quest to reclaim the past--of both a
country and a man.
"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
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 "Like Don
DeLillo's JFK-themed Libra, the novel is an intoxicating blend of
fact and fiction" Glasgow Herald "A masterful writer" Nicole Krauss
"Vasquez has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary grandmaster
of Colombia" Ariel Dorfman, New York Review of Books "A dazzlingly
choreographed network of echoes and mirrorings" T.L.S. It takes the
form of personal and formal investigations into two political
assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man
who inspired Garcia Marquez's General Buendia in One Hundred Years
of Solitude, and of the charismatic Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the man
who might have been Colombia's J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of
success in the presidential elections of 1948. Separated by more
than 30 years, the two murders at first appear unconnected, but as
the novel progresses Vasquez reveals how between them they contain
the seeds of the violence that has bedevilled Colombia ever since.
The Shape of the Ruins is Vasquez's most ambitious, challenging and
rewarding novel to date. His previous novel, The Sound of Things
Falling, won Spain's Alfaguara Prize, Italy's Von Rezzori Prize and
the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award. Winner of the Premio
Literario Casino da Povoa 2018 Finalist for the Bienal de Novela
Mario Vargas Llosa 2016 Finalist for the Premio Bottari Lattes
Grinzane 2017 Finalist for the Prix Femina Finalist for the Prix
Medicis Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
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The Informers (Paperback)
Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Translated by Anne McLean
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A virtuosic novel about family, history, memory, and betrayal from
the brightest new Latin American literary talent working today.
When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own
father, a public intellectual and famous BogotA rhetorician,
Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to
provoke such a painful reaction. A volume that catalogues the life
of Sara Guterman, a longtime family friend and Jewish immigrant,
since her arrival in Colombia in the 1930s, "A Life in Exile"
seemed a slim, innocent exercise in recording modern history. But
as a devastated Gabriel delves, yet again, into Sara's story,
searching for clues to his father's anger, he cannot yet see the
sinister secret buried in his research that could destroy his
father's exalted reputation and redefine his own.
After his father's mysterious death in a car accident a few years
later, Gabriel sets out anew to navigate half a century of
half-truths and hidden meanings. With the help of Sara Guterman and
his father's young girlfriend, Angelina, layer after shocking layer
of Gabriel's world falls away and a complex portrait of his father
emerges from the ruins. From the streets of 1940s BogotA to a
stranger's doorstep in 1990s MedellA-n, he unravels the web of
doubt, betrayal, and guilt at the core of his father's life and he
wades into a dark, longsilenced period of Colombian history after
World War II.
With a taut, riveting narrative and achingly beautiful prose, Juan
Gabriel VAsquez delivers an expansive, powerful exploration of the
sins of our fathers, of war's devastating psychological costs, and
of the inescapability of the past. A novel that has earned VAsquez
comparisons to Sebald, Borges, Roth, and MArquez, "The Informers"
heralds the arrival of a major literary talent.
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