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Songs for the Flames
Engelsk Paperback
Songs for the Flames
Engelsk Paperback

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"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 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

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9781529405477
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1529405475
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
16 sep 2021
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
128mm
Forlag:
Quercus Publishing
Oplagsdato:
16 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge