Juan Gabriel Vásquez 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 gorgeously wrought, award-winning novel, Vásquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia.
In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar’s Medellín cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend’s family have been shaped by his country’s recent violent past. His journey leads him all the way back to the 1960s and a world on the brink of change: a time before narco-trafficking trapped a whole generation in a living nightmare.
Vásquez is “one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature,” according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of Things Falling is his most personal, most contemporary novel to date, a masterpiece that takes his writing—and will take his literary star—even higher.
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s books include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller,?The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning?The Informers?and?The Secret History of Costaguana.?Vásquez’s novels have been published in seventeen languages worldwide. After sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now lives in Bogotá.
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有一个人,他的人生没有发现,没有学习,就只是一场无比漫长的刑罚。想到这些,没人会无动于衷。一个失去了生气的人生,一个从指间溜走的人生,一个需要独自忍受却成了别人所属之物的人生——而那些人并没有在这个人生当中经受痛苦。
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