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The Sound of Things Falling

The Sound of Things Falling

McLean, Anne
Vàsquez, Juan Gabriel

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Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 159463274X
ISBN13: 9781594632747
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Jun 3 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
* National Bestseller and Dublin Literary Award winner
* Hailed by Edmund White as a brilliant new novel on the cover of the New York Times Book Review
* Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others

An intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia, from international fiction star Juan Gabriel Vasquez.

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 New York Times-bestselling, award-winning, gorgeously wrought 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.

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