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First published in Great Britin as Retrospective by MacLehose Press ... London, in 2022"--Title page verso.

By the International Booker-shortlisted author - the extraordinary story of a life lived in the vortex of the twentieth century

A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez.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 count...

A dazzling collection of stories by the winner of the Dublin Literary Award (IMPAC).

One of the great novels to have been written in our language"Mario Vargas LlosaHe 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...

By the International Booker-shortlisted author - the extraordinary story of a life lived in the vortex of the twentieth century

A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez.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 count...

A dazzling collection of stories by the winner of the Dublin Literary Award (IMPAC)

A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions--the much-anticipated masterpiece from V+squez.8225, squez.

The Shape of the Ruins by the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez, whose recent novel, the best-selling Sound of Things Falling won Spain's Alfaguara Prize, Italy's Von Rezzori Prize and the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award, was published to acclaim in Colombia last year and has just appeared in Spain. It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the ma...

A brilliant novel about the power of politics and personal memory from one of South America's literary stars, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling.Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges' decisions, destroying politicians' careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Th...

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A collection of seven, thematically linked stories, exploring the depths of relationships, loneliness and cruelty.

As Colombia's most famous political cartoonist strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career, he contemplates how forty years before he gave up painting and began drawing caricatures to earn a living. For years his cartoons have had the power to overturn a judge's decision, threaten the stability of a ministry or repeal a law, with the result that half the country loved him and the other half wished him...

An intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia, from international fiction star Juan Gabriel Vasquez. 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 New York Times-bestselling, award-winning, gorgeously wrought novel, Vásquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia.In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara r...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations, a brilliant collection of stories that showcases why he is one of the best writers-in any language-working today. Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories. Vásquez ach...

As Colombia's most famous political cartoonist strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career, he contemplates how 40 years before he gave up painting and began drawing caricatures to earn a living. For years his cartoons have had the power to overturn a judge's decision, threaten the stability of a ministry or repeal a law, with the result that half the country loved him and the other half wished him de...

In the early 20th century, Joseph Conrad wrote his great novel "Nostromo, " about a South American republic he named Costaguana. In "The Secret History of Costaguana, " readers uncover the hidden source--and one of the great literary thefts. 304 pp. 12, 000 print.

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