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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Juan Gabriel Vásquez , Anne McLeanPublisher: Quercus Publishing Imprint: MacLehose Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.587kg ISBN: 9781529418637ISBN 10: 1529418631 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 01 September 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsOne of the great novels to have been written in our language -- Mario Vargas Llosa * El Pais * The story of their political indoctrination, active deployment, growing unease and ultimate disillusionment is both fascinating and terrifying -- Melissa Harrison * Guardian * Hours and hours of recordings and conversations over the years have resulted in an extraordinary novel of adventures and nightmares, a ruthless exploration of the delusions of political utopianism and moral totalitarianism, an excursion into the dark and buried side of history when history becomes political faith -- Jordi Gracia * El Pais * A true international writer -- Yiyun Li * New York Times * A fascinating novelistic narration of the adventures of the family of the filmmaker Sergio Cabrera, that travels through the twentieth century and three continents, from the flight of his father and grandfather in the Spanish Civil War to his own participation in the Colombian guerrilla after a Kafkaesque and bizarre revolutionary training in China * La Vanguardia * It bites, it hits, it hurts pain, it makes sparks fly. Literature struggles to become life and life struggles to be told. Such an incredible book! -- Manuel Rivas Written with an enviably full style and a superb control of the novelist's impulses * La Vanguardia * A lucid and subtle metaphor for how ideologies marked the private lives of the twentieth century * El Cultural * Vasquez is a Colombian writer with the talent to keep a magician's equilibrium between reality and fiction. . . . Beautifully written and gripping -- Gioconda Belli * Guardian * One of the great novels to have been written in our language -- Mario Vargas Llosa * El Pais * Hours and hours of recordings and conversations over the years have resulted in an extraordinary novel of adventures and nightmares, a ruthless exploration of the delusions of political utopianism and moral totalitarianism, an excursion into the dark and buried side of history when history becomes political faith -- Jordi Gracia * El Pais * A true international writer -- Yiyun Li * New York Times * A fascinating novelistic narration of the adventures of the family of the filmmaker Sergio Cabrera, that travels through the twentieth century and three continents, from the flight of his father and grandfather in the Spanish Civil War to his own participation in the Colombian guerrilla after a Kafkaesque and bizarre revolutionary training in China * La Vanguardia * It bites, it hits, it hurts pain, it makes sparks fly. Literature struggles to become life and life struggles to be told. Such an incredible book! -- Manuel Rivas Written with an enviably full style and a superb control of the novelist's impulses * La Vanguardia * A lucid and subtle metaphor for how ideologies marked the private lives of the twentieth century * El Cultural * One of the great novels to have been written in our language -- Mario Vargas Llosa * El Pais * Hours and hours of recordings and conversations over the years have resulted in an extraordinary novel of adventures and nightmares, a ruthless exploration of the delusions of political utopianism and moral totalitarianism, an excursion into the dark and buried side of history when history becomes political faith -- Jordi Gracia * El Pais * A true international writer -- Yiyun Li * New York Times * A fascinating novelistic narration of the adventures of the family of the filmmaker Sergio Cabrera, that travels through the twentieth century and three continents, from the flight of his father and grandfather in the Spanish Civil War to his own participation in the Colombian guerrilla after a Kafkaesque and bizarre revolutionary training in China * La Vanguardia * It bites, it hits, it hurts pain, it makes sparks fly. Literature struggles to become life and life struggles to be told. Such an incredible book! -- Manuel Rivas Written with an enviably full style and a superb control of the novelist's impulses * La Vanguardia * A lucid and subtle metaphor for how ideologies marked the private lives of the twentieth century * El Cultural * Vasquez is a Colombian writer with the talent to keep a magician's equilibrium between reality and fiction. . . . Beautifully written and gripping -- Gioconda Belli * Guardian * Author InformationJUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ is the author of five previous novels, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, Reputations, The Sound of Things Falling and International Booker-shortlisted The Shape of the Ruins, as well as two acclaimed story collections The All Saints' Day Lovers and Songs for the Flames. He is also the translator into Spanish of works by E. M. Forster, John Hersey and Victor Hugo. His own books have been translated into more than twenty languages. 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