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August 2015
On Sale: July 21, 2015
ISBN: 1594634262
EAN: 9781594634260
Kindle: B00OZ0TP0W
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The
Sound of Things Falling, a brilliant collection of
stories that showcases why he is one of the best writers—in
any language—working today.
Lovers on
All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts,
moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the brilliant
novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the
themes of love and memory in these seven powerful
stories.
Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of
emotion with these fragmented lives. A Colombian writer is
witness to a murder that will mark him forever. A woman sits
alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return from
an expedition to find wood for their stove, while he lies in
another woman’s bed a few miles away, unable to heal the
wound in his own marriage. In these stories, there are love
affairs, revenge, troubled pasts, and tender moments that
reveal a person’s whole history in a few
sentences.
Set in Europe (the scene of Vásquez’s own
self-imposed exile from Latin America) and never before
available in English, this collection evokes a singular mood
and a tone, and showcase Vásquez’s hypnotic writing. Vásquez
is a humane, deeply insightful writer, and these stories
leave one feeling transformed from the experience of reading
them, with a greater vision of humanity and society, a
greater understanding of relationships and of love.
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