Songs for the Flames

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Songs for the Flames
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 September 2020
Pages
208
ISBN
9781529405446

Songs for the Flames

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine

Juan Gabriel Vasquez … has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of Books

A morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019).

A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a Korean War veteran to confront a shameful secret. And in the title story, an internet search for a book published in 1887 leads to the discovery of the life of a remarkable woman: Aurelia de Leon, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of her adoptive country’s deep conservatism.

The characters in Songs for the Flames are all men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially - but the lives of all of them are irrevocably changed by the experience.

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

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