El ruido de las cosas al caer (60 aniversario de Alfaguara) / The Sound of Thing s Falling

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Pub. Date: 2024-10-22
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Summary

Una novela llena de suspense y la perfecta radiografía de una generación atrapada en el miedo.

Novela ganadora del English Pen Award 2012, del Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze 2013 y del IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award 2014.

Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2011.

Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que en el pasado de su nuevo amigo hay un secreto, o quizá varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obsesión el día en que éste es asesinado.
 
Convencido de que resolver el enigma le señalará un camino en su encrucijada vital, Yammara emprende una investigación que se remonta a los primeros años setenta, cuando una generación de jóvenes idealistas fue testigo del nacimiento de un negocio que acabaría por llevar a Colombia -y al mundo- al borde del abismo. Años después, la exótica fuga de un hipopótamo, último vestigio del imposible zoológico con el que Pablo Escobar exhibía su poder, es la chispa que lleva a Yammara a contar su historia y la de Ricardo Laverde, tratando de averiguar cómo el negocio del narcotráfico marcó la vida privada de quienes nacieron con él.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

* National Bestseller and Dublin Literary Award winner

* Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review

* Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many others

An intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia, from international fiction star Juan Gabriel Vasquez.


Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed not only as one of South America’s greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. In this New York Times-bestselling, award-winning, gorgeously wrought novel, Vásquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia.
 
In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar’s Medellín cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend’s family have been shaped by his country’s recent violent past. His journey leads him all the way back to the 1960s and a world on the brink of change: a time before narco-trafficking trapped a whole generation in a living nightmare.

Vásquez is “one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature,” according to Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of Things Falling is his most personal, most contemporary novel to date, a masterpiece that takes his writing—and his literary star—even higher.

Author Biography

Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bogotá, 1973) es autor de las colecciones de relatos Los amantes de Todos los Santos y Canciones para el incendio (Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana), de la recopilación de artículos Los desacuerdos de paz y de las novelas Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer (Premio Alfaguara, Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze, The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Las reputaciones (Premio Real Academia Española, Premio Literario Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente, Prémio Casa da América Latina de Lisboa), La forma de las ruinas (Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa) y Volver la vista atrás (Prix Littéraire de Livres Hebdo a la mejor novela extranjera, Premio Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa, XVI Premio Novela Europea Casino de Santiago y uno de los mejores 50 libros de 2021 por Babelia). Vásquez ha publicado también dos recopilaciones de ensayos literarios, El arte de la distorsión y Viajes con un mapa en blanco, y una breve biografía de Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. Ha traducido obras de Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo y E. M. Forster, entre otros. Ha ganado dos veces el Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar. En 2012 ganó en París el Prix Roger Caillois por el conjunto de su obra; en 2016 fue nombrado Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras de la República Francesa; en 2018 recibió la Orden de Isabel la Católica y en 2022 fue elegido por la Bienal de la Royal Society of Literature del Reino Unido para hacer parte del programa RSL International Writers. Sus libros se publican en treinta lenguas. Es columnista del periódico El País.

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