The Sound of Things Falling (Advance Reading Copy)

Juan Gabriel Vásquez (author); Anne McLean (translator)

ISBN 10: 1594487480 / ISBN 13: 9781594487484

Published by Riverhead Books (Penguin), New York, 2013

About this Item

ADVANCE READING COPY. A near-fine copy with French flaps. A clean, unmarked copy. Publicity material laid in. A fine copy, but for light wear to extremities. ARC.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1548

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sound of Things Falling (Advance Reading Copy)
• Publisher: Riverhead Books (Penguin), New York
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594487480
• ISBN 13: 9781594487484
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Advance Reading Copies
  • Spanish Literature

About this title

Synopsis

* 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.

About the Author

Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s books include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana. Vásquez’s novels have been published in seventeen languages worldwide. After sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now lives in Bogotá.