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(0)Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Series
Publisher
Debolsillo Mexico
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
La exótica fuga y posterior caza de un hipopótamo, último vestigio del imposible zoológico con el que Pablo Escobar exhibía su poder, es la chispa que arranca los mecanismos de la memoria de Antonio Yammara, protagonista y narrador de El ruido de las cosas al caer, un negro balance de una época de terror y violencia, en una Bogotá descrita como un territorio literario lleno de significaciones.En 1995, Antonio conoce al intrigante Ricardo Laverde,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Juan Gabriel Vaquez retraces his most intense obsessions: the weight of the past, memory faults, how our lives intersect with the political world. But it is also a novel about the importance of opinion in our societies. In the demanding genre of the novel, which has given so many masterpieces in the Latin American tradition, Vaquez gives us his most intimate: an intense reflection on the weakness of public and private judgments on irreversible encounters....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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 Bogotá billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a...