Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Winner of the Alfaguara Prize
Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize
'A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn’t choose to fight' The Times
'The story is compelling but through Vásquez’s vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting … A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in a country scrabbling to regain its soul' Financial Times
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette.
Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner.
Yammara's investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.
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A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn’t choose to fight
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014
Winner of the Alfaguara Prize 2011
Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2013
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013
The Sound of Things Falling won the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Spain's prestigious 2011 Alfaguara Prize, and was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781408831618
Publisert
2013-09-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
256 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320
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