Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In 2014, a man's apprehended at a museum in Bogotá trying to steal the suit that an assassinated politician wore on the day of his death. What's behind--and what's the link between--the 1914 attacks against Colombian senator Rafael Uribe Uribe--who would inspire García Márquez to create Aureliano Buendía from One Hundred Years of Solitude, the leader of the Liberal Party Jorge Eliecer Gaitán--whose death in 1948 would blow up the history of Colombia,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo Mexico
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The text begins with Yammara giving a brief description of his early life. He began as a professor, who met Aura in one of his classes. She exchanged sexual favors with Antonio in exchange for higher grades in his classes and falls pregnant. Antonio also frequents a local pool hall, in which he meets ex-con Ricardo Laverde. They begin playing pool together and Antonio quickly becomes interested in the man's mysterious past. Although Antonio claims...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara Ediciones
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront his past.
Un nuevo libro de relatos del ganador del Premio IMPAC y el Premio Alfaguara de novela por El ruido de las cosas al caer.00Una fotógrafa comprende algo que hubiera preferido no comprender. Un veterano de la guerra...