MacLehose Press Songs for the Flames Васкес Хуан Габриэль

It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired Garcia Marquez's General Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and of the charismatic Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the man who might have been Colombia's J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of success in the presidential elections of 1948. Separated by more than 30 years, the two murders at first appear unconnected, but as the novel progresses Vasquez reveals how between them they contain the seeds of the violence that has bedevilled Colombia ever since • The Shape of Ruins is Vasquez's most ambitious, challenging and rewarding novel to date. His previous novel, The Sound of Things Falling, won Spain's Alfaguara Prize, Italy's Von Rezzori Prize and the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award

The journey had taken on its own momentum, it had become an autonomous, independent entity, she was searching for love, and was still happily unaware that truth is the first casualty of peace • The long war is over, and Ingrid Barroy leaves the island that bears her name to search for the father of her child • Alexander, the Russian captive who survived the sinking of prisoner ship the Rigel and found himself in Ingrid's arms, made an attempt to cross the mountains to Sweden. Ingrid will follow in his footsteps, carrying her babe in arms, the child's dark eyes the only proof that she ever knew him • Along the way, Ingrid's will encounter collaborators, partisans, refugees, deserters, slaves and sinners, in a country that still bears the scars of defeat and occupation

Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove to the world that the myth of Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, is a sham and a scandal • In Pasto, south Colombia, where the good doctor plies his trade, the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents is dawning. A day for pranks, jokes and soakings ... Water bombs, poisoned empanaditas, ground glass in the hog roast - anything goes • What better day to commission a float for The Black and White Carnival that will explode the myth of El Libertador once and for all? One that will lay bare the massacres, betrayals and countless deflowerings that history has forgotten • But in Colombia you question the founding fables at your peril

A beautiful, blistering life story told amid the wreckage of a car crash • I might no longer exist here at this moment • this moment might no longer exist for me • Violeta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, caught in a tumultuous storm. When her tired eyes close for just a second, her car veers off the road, overturns, and comes to rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground • And as she lies amid the wreckage, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's troubled life will quite literally flash before her eyes • Violeta Among the Stars weaves memories and feelings as Violeta reflects on her death and her life, the piercing highs and the seedy lows. An astonishing portrait of a seemingly insignificant life from one of Portugal's greatest living writers

We’ve all stood on a street corner and let the city’s lights and sounds pass by. What do we hear when we listen to the sounds of the city? What traces do they leave in us? The city and the streets are the same as before, but the people who emerge in Echoes of a City have never been seen before • At the centre are Ewald and Maj Kristoffersen, but their fates are closely interwoven with the streets they live on. Down the road a couple has a butcher’s shop. They have a son, Jostein, who goes deaf after a traffic accident. Jesper, Ewald and Maj’s son, promises to be his ears in the world. The butcher couple and the widow Mrs Vik have a telephone, but not the Kristoffersen family. Jesper takes piano lessons, Mrs Vik meets the widower Olaf Hall who runs the second-hand bookshop at the cemetery

No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogota than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette • Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner • Yammara's investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare

Блистательный исторический и постмодернистский роман от автора книги «Шум падающих вещей». Много лет назад уроженец Колумбии Хосе Альтамирано рассказал писателю Джозефу Конраду историю своей жизни, и она под пером писателя превратилась в вымысел, роман «Ностромо». Разрываемая политической борьбой Колумбия стала в нем полу-мифической Костагуаной. Но теперь колумбиец жаждет сам записать свою жгучую исповедь и восстановить истинный ход событий — бури революций, поиски отца, эпопею строительства Панамского канала, обстоятельства неожиданной любви и бегства в Европу… • Хуан Габриэль Васкес с изобретательностью, достойной наследника Маркеса, Борхеса и Кортасара, играет с читателем, предлагая увидеть за текстом классика иной текст, напитанный кровью реальности, но на деле также бескомпромиссно смешивающий судьбы империй, свидетельства участников исторических событий и великолепные плоды писательского воображения

As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogota before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colon, he contemplates the start of his professional life; how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure from his past, now a young woman, emerges from the crowd and forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation and the value of his life's work

В романе Хуана Габриэля Васкеса, самого известного современного писателя Колумбии, "наследника Маркеса", как именует его пресса, есть все, что предполагает качественная литература: острый закрученный сюжет, психологическая драма, тропические цветы и запахи, непростые любовные отношения. Колумбия еще только оправляется от жесткой войны правительства с Пабло Эскобаром. На улицах Боготы еще гибнут люди. Молодой преподаватель права Антонио Яммара становится свидетелем убийства бывшего летчика Рикардо Лаверде и начинает расследование • Сцены романа будоражат воображение: убитый бегемот из зоопарка наркобарона, бывший заключенный, со слезами слушающий магнитофонную кассету, крушение самолета... И все-таки книга рассказывает не только о страхе и боли, но также о дружбе, верности и счастье рождения ребенка

В романе Хуана Габриэля Васкеса, самого известного современного писателя Колумбии, "наследника Маркеса", как именует его пресса, есть все, что предполагает качественная литература: острый закрученный сюжет, психологическая драма, тропические цветы и запахи, непростые любовные отношения. Колумбия еще только оправляется от жесткой войны правительства с Пабло Эскобаром. На улицах Боготы еще гибнут люди. Молодой преподаватель права Антонио Яммара становится свидетелем убийства бывшего летчика Рикардо Лаверде и начинает расследование • Сцены романа будоражат воображение: убитый бегемот из зоопарка наркобарона, бывший заключенный, со слезами слушающий магнитофонную кассету, крушение самолета... И все-таки книга рассказывает не только о страхе и боли, но также о дружбе, верности и счастье рождения ребенка