Songs for the Flames

Songs for the Flames
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
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3 Sep 2020 UK
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9781529405453
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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. A walk-on part in a Polanski film finds the narrator searching the director' s face for signs of the aftermath of Sharon Tate' s murder. The internet search for a book published in 1887, leads a writer to discover the life of a passionate woman. The characters in SONGS FOR THE FLAMES are men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly, sometimes only tangentially - but whose lives are changed forever by an unexpected encounter or by the operation of incomprehensible forces. Sixteen years after his first collection, Juan Gabriel Vasquez returns to the form with an outstanding set of nine morally complex stories, fresh proof of his narrative versatility and his profound understanding of the lives of others.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature. For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist. . . a thrilling new discovery. A masterful writer. Juan Gabriel Vasquez has many gifts-intelligence, wit, energy, a deep vein of feeling-but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one' s amazement at his talents, and then the strange, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold. A book crammed with human stories in which various tragedies are seen at a distance. And with the characters that could easily have been the protagonists of their own novels - Federico SimonIn these nine stories, written in the first person and in prose as swift and elegant as crystal, Vasquez does not build a purely fictional universe, but presents himself, like Cervantes, as a chronicler of events that happened and are in some way partof his biography. - La RazonThe invisible stitching between these different levels of the story is a great technical achievement - SemanaNine stories in which the laws of chance burst into the characters' daily lives, leading them to sketch out other stories in which, willingly or not, they become characters in something bigger than themselves - El Tiempo
JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ is the author of four previous novels including The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, Reputations and The Sound of Things Falling and of the story collection The All Saints' Day Lovers. He is also the translator into Spanish of works by E. M. Forster, John Hersey and Victor Hugo. His own books have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529405453
Published: 3 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 208

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