A taut new novel by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling one of the most original voices of Latin American literature, Mario Vargas Llosa 'An affecting, carefully paced work of psychological realism Times Literary Supplement As Colombias famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogotá before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colón, he contemplates the start of his professional life; how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure from his past, now a young woman, emerges from the crowd and forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation and the value of his lifes work.
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Weight: 142g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 04 May 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781408852941
About Juan Gabriel Vasquez
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 Dublin Literary Award the Alfaguara Prize the Gregor von Rezzori Prize the Prix Roger Caillois and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Reputations was awarded the Royal Spanish Academy Prize in 2014. His books have been published in twenty-six languages and forty countries. After sixteen years in France Belgium and Spain he now lives in Bogotà. Anne McLean has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors including Javier Cercas Hector Abad Carmen Martin Gaite Julio Cortàzar Ignacio Martínez de Pisòn Enrique Vila-Matas and Tomàs Eloy Martínez. She lives in Toronto.