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Songs for the Flames

Juan Gabriel Vsquez

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  • 208 sidor
  • 2021
"Like Bolao, Vsquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine "Juan Gabriel Vsquez . . . has succeeded Garca Mrquez 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 Lon, 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
  • Författare: Juan Gabriel Vsquez
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781529405477
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-09-16
  • Översättare: Anne McLean
  • Förlag: MacLehose Press