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The Sound of Things Falling
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Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Winner of the Alfaguara Prize
Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize
A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didnt choose to fightThe Times
The story is compelling but through Vásquezs vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting … A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in a country scrabbling to regain its soulFinancial Times
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonios fascination with his new friends life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette.
Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner.
Yammaras investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.
Winner of the Alfaguara Prize
Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize
A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didnt choose to fightThe Times
The story is compelling but through Vásquezs vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting … A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in a country scrabbling to regain its soulFinancial Times
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonios fascination with his new friends life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette.
Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner.
Yammaras investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.
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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781408834121
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 08/11/2012
Año de edición: 2013
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