La Forma de Las Ruinas / The Shape of the Ruins - Paperback
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by Juan Gabriel V?squez (Author)
En la lista de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly del 2018
La forma de las ruinas es al mismo tiempo una intriga de investigadores e investigados, una novela profundamente autobiográfica y una intensa exploración histórica.
La novela más importante de Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
Mario Vargas Llosa ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A Publisher Weekly Best Book 2018
The winner of the IMPAC Prize and the Alfaguara Novel Prize for The Sound of Things Falling brings us a thrilling novel about the intrigues of power and its conspiracies.
- His most important novel to date.
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most prominent young writers in the Spanish language.
- His previous novel, Reputations, received the 20th San Clemente Literary Prize and the Real Academia Española Prize.
- The Sound of Things Falling, 2011 Alfaguara Novel Prize winner, has been widely translated to other languages.
- He has been praised by the likes of Mario Vargas Llosa, John Banville, Javier Cercas, Colm Tóibín, Juan Marsé, Nicole Krauss, and Edmund White. A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. This novel explores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read, beautiful and profound, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories.
Author Biography
Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bogotá, 1973) es autor de la colección de relatos Los amantes de Todos los Santos y de las novelas Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer, Las reputaciones y La forma de las ruinas. Ha publicado también una recopilación de ensayos literarios, El arte de la distorsión, y una breve biografía de Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. Sus libros se publican actualmente en veintiocho lenguas y han merecido, entre otros, el Premio Alfaguara, el English Pen Award, el Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze, el IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, el Premio Real Academia Española, el Premio Casa de Amèrica Latina de Lisboa y el Premio Roger Caillois por el conjunto de su obra, otorgado anteriormente a escritores como Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes y Ricardo Piglia. Ha traducido obras de Joseph Conrad y Victor Hugo, entre otros, y en 2016 fue nombrado Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras de la República francesa.
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