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Riverhead Hardcover
August 2013
On Sale: August 1, 2013
288 pages
ISBN: 1594487480
EAN: 9781594487484
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From a global literary star comes a prize-winning tour de
force – an intimate portrayal of the drug wars in
Colombia.
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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