Retrospective

Author:   Juan Gabriel Vásquez ,  Anne McLean
Publisher:   Quercus Publishing
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9781529418637


Pages:   496
Publication Date:   01 September 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Juan Gabriel Vásquez ,  Anne McLean
Publisher:   Quercus Publishing
Imprint:   MacLehose Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.587kg
ISBN:  

9781529418637


ISBN 10:   1529418631
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   01 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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One 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 *


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JUAN 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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