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The Sound Of Things Falling
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Author : Juan Gabriel Vasquez
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-08-01
The Sound Of Things Falling written by Juan Gabriel Vasquez and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with Fiction categories.
* National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award * Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review * 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 Vásquez 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, Vásquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia. In the city of Bogotá, 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 Medellín 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. Vásquez 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.
The Sound Of Things Falling
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Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-11-08
The Sound Of Things Falling written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-08 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 Winner of the Alfaguara Prize 2011 Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2013 No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá 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.
The Sound Of Things Falling
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Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Sound Of Things Falling written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Colombia categories.
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogot� 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.
The Shape Of The Ruins
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Author : Juan Gabriel Vasquez
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-09-25
The Shape Of The Ruins written by Juan Gabriel Vasquez and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Fiction categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. This novel explores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read, beautiful and profound, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories.
Reputations
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Author : Juan Gabriel Vasquez
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Reputations written by Juan Gabriel Vasquez and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Fiction categories.
From the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist. Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country’s most influential political cartoonist, the conscience of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges’ decisions, and destroying politicians’ careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage. After four decades of a brilliant career, he’s at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he’s paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his personal history and forces him to reconsider his life and work, questioning his position in the world. In Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vásquez examines the weight of the past, how a public persona intersects with private histories, the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel, Vásquez once again brilliantly plumbs universal experiences to create a masterly story, one that reverberates long after you turn the final page.
Things Fall Apart
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Author : Chinua Achebe
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1994-09-01
Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-01 with Fiction categories.
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
The Sound Of Waves
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Author : Yukio Mishima
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-04-09
The Sound Of Waves written by Yukio Mishima and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with Fiction categories.
Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
The Informers
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Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-05-01
The Informers written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Fiction categories.
A brilliant debut from 'one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' (Mario Vargas Llosa) 'For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez, The Informers is a thrilling new discovery' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'One of this year's outstanding books' Financial Times When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the guilt and complicity at the heart of Colombian society, as one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance half a century later.
Songs For The Flames
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Author : Juan Gabriel Vasquez
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Songs For The Flames written by Juan Gabriel Vasquez and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with Fiction categories.
A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence—sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing—but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a countryside ranch, would rather leave behind. A military reunion forces a soldier to confront a troubling history, both personal and on a larger scale. And in a tour-de-force piece, the search for a book leads a writer to the fascinating story of why a woman is buried next to a graveyard, rather than in it—and the remarkable account of her journey from France to Colombia as a child orphan. Juan Gabriel Vásquez returns to stories with these nine morally complex tales, fresh proof of his narrative versatility and his profound understanding of the lives of others. There’s a romantic wistfulness that combusts with the realities of dangerous histories, both personal and political, to throw these characters into the flames from which they either emerge purified, reborn, or burned and destroyed.
The All Saints Day Lovers
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Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-05-21
The All Saints Day Lovers written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-21 with Fiction categories.
An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling 'The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page ... Terrific' Khaled Hosseini, Books of the Year 'One of the most original new writers of Latin American literature' Mario Vargas Llosa A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives. Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense collection of stories that explores the depths of relationships, loneliness and cruelty.