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Juan Gabriel Vasquez has been hailed as not only one of South America’s greatest literary stars, but as one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. Since his much-lauded novels The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana, Vasquez has won the prestigious Spanish language Alfaguara Novel Prize for his masterwork, this book, The Sound of Things Falling. In this enthralling, mesmerizing tale, Vasquez finally delves into his own Colombia -- the drug trade, the dangerous politics that have an enormous impact on individuals and families in his home country. Vasquez has said “The relationship my country has with the drug trade has shaped my life… The consequences reach into every corner of society.”* In this gorgeously wrought novel, Vasquez confronts this rich and troubled history, both personal and political. In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippopotamus that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, and had been hunted down. The article transports Antonio back to the mid-1990s and a time when the war between Escobar’s Medellín cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and forests and in the skies above. Back then, the assassination of a friend compelled Antonio to understand what happened and why and in his mission to learn the truth, he discovered the many ways in which his own life has been touched and shaped by his country’s recent violent past. His journey leads him all the way back through his country's history to the 1960s and a world on the brink of change: a time before narco-trafficking trapped a whole generation in a living nightmare of brutality and fear. Juan Gabriel Vásquez is “One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature," according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and the award-winning 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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- Lajityypit
- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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- Riverhead Books (Kustantaja)
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- June 2013 Starts: 2013-06-03Valmis: 2013-07-01
- On Sale
- 2013-08-01
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