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Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogota in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colon, he contemplates the start of his professional life, and how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures fo ...Show more
Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of the great novels to have been written in our language"Mario Vargas LlosaHe thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen... In October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is attending a retro ...Show more
Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront his past. A walk-on part in a Polanski film finds the narrator searching the ...Show more
Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia, from international fiction star Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Juan Gabriel V squez 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 New York Times-bestselling, ...Show more
The All Saints' Day Lovers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium's Ardennes, these stories have been compared to Maupassant, Chekhov, John Cheever and Antonio Tabucc ...Show more
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jose Altamirano, Colombian at birth, who has just arrived in London, ...Show more
The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Trans Anne McLean | Reading Level: very good
"Like Don DeLillo's JFK-themed Libra, the novel is an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction" Glasgow Herald "A masterful writer" Nicole Krauss "A highly sophisticated, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read" Alan Furst "A dazzlingly choreographed network of echoes and mirr ...Show more
The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Description: The Shape of the Ruins by the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez, whose recent novel, the best-selling Sound of Things Falling won Spain's Alfaguara Prize, Italy's Von Rezzori Prize and the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award, was published to acclaim in Colombia last year and has just appe ...Show more
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Bogota billiard hall and gr ...Show more
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