The Sound of Things Falling

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781594632747 Author(s): Juan Gabriel Vasquez Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2014 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Pages: 320 Age: 18

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• National Bestseller and Dublin Literary Award winner* Hailed by Edmund White as 'a brilliant new novel' on the cover of theA‚ New York Times Book Review* Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many othersAn intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia, from international fiction star Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Juan Gabriel VA?Â?squez has been hailed not only as one of South AmericaA?s greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. In this New York Times-bestselling, award-winning, gorgeously wrought novel, VA?Â?squez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia.In the city of BogotA?Â?, 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 EscobarA?s MedellA?­n cartel and government forces played out violently in ColombiaA?s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friendA?s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friendA?s family have been shaped by his countryA?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.VA?Â?squez is A?one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature,A? 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 writingA?and his literary starA?even higher.

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