Songs for the Flames

di Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Autore)

Anne McLean (Traduttore)

Quercus Publishing, 2021

"Like Bolaño, Vásquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine "Juan Gabriel Vásquez . . . has succeeded García Márquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia" ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of Books A morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019). A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a Korean War veteran to confront a shameful secret. And in the title story, an internet search for a book published in 1887 leads to the discovery of the life of a remarkable woman: Aurelia de Léon, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of her adoptive country's deep conservatism. The characters in Songs for the Flames are all men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially - but the lives of all of them are irrevocably changed by the experience. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

• Autore: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• Traduttore: Anne McLean
• Editore: Quercus Publishing
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 208 p.
• Dimensioni: 196 x 126 mm
• Peso: 160 gr.
• EAN: 9781529405477

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