When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a leading newspaper. The book is about the life of a German Jewish woman who arrived in Colombia shortly before WWII. So why does his father attack him so viciously? Does his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret?
When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a leading newspaper. The book...
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 Winner of the Alfaguara Prize 2011 Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2013 No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogota 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...
Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014 Winner of the Alfaguara Prize 2011 Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2013 No sooner ...
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 Llosa A 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....
An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things F...
Pětašedesátiletý kreslíř Javier Mallarino je žijící legendou kolumbijské politické satiry, člověkem, jehož pero má moc rozhodovat o osudech druhých. Právě ve chvíli, kdy se nachází na vrcholu zářné kariéry, jej však setkání s neznámou mladou ženou náhle konfrontuje s dávnou událostí, kterou vytěsnil ze své paměti, a zásadně zpochybní jeho renomé i hodnotu jeho celoživotního díla. Mistrně komponovaný, filozofující i lyrický text nového Vásquezova románu, který se již dočkal řady významných ocenění, je působivým zamyšlením nad...
Pětašedesátiletý kreslíř Javier Mallarino je žijící legendou kolumbijské politické satiry, člověkem, jehož pero má moc rozhodovat o osu...
