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(0)Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the day of Joseph Conrad's death in 1924, the Colombian-born José Altamirano begins to write and cannot stop. Many years before, he confessed to Conrad his life's every delicious detail—from his country's heroic revolutions to his darkest solitary moments. Those intimate recollections became Nostromo, a novel that solidified Conrad’s fame and turned Altamirano’s reality into a work of fiction. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means...
3) Reputations
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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. Those in power fear him and pay him homage. At sixty-five, after four decades of a brilliant career, he's at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he's paid an unexpected...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogotá billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Colombian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.