Songs for the Flames
Sinopsis
"Like Bolaño, Vásquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure"LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine
"Juan Gabriel Vásquez . . . has succeeded García Márquez 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 Léon, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of her adoptive countrys 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
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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: Maclehose Press
ISBN: 9781529405460
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 03/09/2020
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