Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
The Sound of Things Falling
Taschenbuch von Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Sprache: Englisch

21,55 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Kategorien:
Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne between 1996 and 1998, and now lives in Barcelona. His stories have appeared in anthologies in Germany, France, Spain and Colombia, and he has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. He was recently nominated as one of the Bogotá 39, South America's most promising writers of the new generation. His highly praised novel The Informers, the first of his books to be translated into English, has been published in eight languages worldwide.

Anne McLean has twice won the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 (which also won her the Valle Inclán Award) and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.

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: 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
Maße: 198 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2013
Gewicht: 0,222 kg
Artikel-ID: 105932947
Über den Autor

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne between 1996 and 1998, and now lives in Barcelona. His stories have appeared in anthologies in Germany, France, Spain and Colombia, and he has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. He was recently nominated as one of the Bogotá 39, South America's most promising writers of the new generation. His highly praised novel The Informers, the first of his books to be translated into English, has been published in eight languages worldwide.

Anne McLean has twice won the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 (which also won her the Valle Inclán Award) and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.

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: 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
Maße: 198 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2013
Gewicht: 0,222 kg
Artikel-ID: 105932947
Warnhinweis