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Juan Gabriel Vásquez - All Saints' Day Lovers, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

All Saints' Day Lovers

Av Juan Gabriel Vásquez

128 kr

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An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling'The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page ... Terrific' Khaled Hosseini, Books of the Year'One of the most original new writers of Latin American literature' Mario Vargas LlosaA Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman’s bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives.Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints’ Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense collection of stories that explores the depths of relationships, loneliness and cruelty.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-05-19
  • Mått: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 300 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781408860434
  • Översättare: Anne McLean
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne, and has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. His previous books have won the IMPAC Award, the Qwerty prize, the Alfaguara Prize and the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2014 IMPAC Prize. His books have been published in sixteen languages and thirty countries. After sixteen years in France, Belgium and Spain, he now lives in Bogotá.Anne McLean has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors including Hector Abad, Carmen Martín Gaite, Julio Cortázar, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Enrique Vila-Matas and Tomás Eloy Martínez. She lives in Toronto.

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The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page ... Terrific

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