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Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Winner of the Alfaguara PrizeWinner 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.
Winner of the Alfaguara PrizeWinner 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.
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Winner of the Alfaguara PrizeWinner 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.
Winner of the Alfaguara PrizeWinner 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.
Über den Autor
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Zusammenfassung
Translated from the Spanish by Anne Mclean, whose previous translations have won many prizes, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Valle Inclan Prize for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
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Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 320 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781408831618 |
ISBN-10: | 1408831619 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Vasquez, Juan Gabriel |
Übersetzung: | Anne McLean |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
Maße: | 198 x 128 x 22 mm |
Von/Mit: | Juan Gabriel Vasquez |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.09.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,222 kg |
Über den Autor
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Zusammenfassung
Translated from the Spanish by Anne Mclean, whose previous translations have won many prizes, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Valle Inclan Prize for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
---|---|
Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 320 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781408831618 |
ISBN-10: | 1408831619 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Vasquez, Juan Gabriel |
Übersetzung: | Anne McLean |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
Maße: | 198 x 128 x 22 mm |
Von/Mit: | Juan Gabriel Vasquez |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.09.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,222 kg |
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