The Informers - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Anne McLeanAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-07-06Pages:368
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9781594484674ISBN-10:1594484678UPC:9781594484674Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Hispanic & LatinoSize:8.21 x 5.55 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCZJ7SH31G
The first novel from a global literary superstar and author of The Sound of Things Falling. "Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Informers is a thrilling new discovery." --Colm Tóibín "One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who escaped to Colombia during the 1930s, Gabriel's book seemed an innocent attempt to preserve a piece of his country's rapidly vanishing past. But as Gabriel pours over his research looking for clues to his father's anger, he discovers a sinister secret locked in the pages. After his father's death, and with the help of Sara Guterman and his father's girlfriend, Angelina, Gabriel peels back layer after shocking layer of family history-from the streets of 1940s Bogotá to a stranger's doorstep in 1990s Medellín-to reveal a hidden portrait of their past-dark, complex, and inescapable.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9781594484674ISBN-10:1594484678UPC:9781594484674Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Hispanic & LatinoSize:8.21 x 5.55 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCZJ7SH31G
Juan Gabriel V?squez's previous books include the Dublin Literary Award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the International Booker finalist The Shape of the Ruins, the award-winning novels The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, and the story collections Songs for the Flames and Lovers on All Saints' Day. V?squez's novels have been published in twenty-five languages worldwide. After sixteen years in France, Belgium, and Spain, he now lives in Bogot?. Anne McLean translates Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs, and other writings. She has twice won both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle Incl?n, and received the Dublin Literary Award with Juan Gabriel V?squez for his novel The Sound of Things Falling. She lives in Toronto.
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