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Reputations by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogota in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colon, he contemplates the start of his professional life, and how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures fo ...Show more
Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of the great novels to have been written in our language"Mario Vargas LlosaHe thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen... In October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is attending a retro ...Show more
Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA "Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen... In October 2016, the real-life Colombian ...Show more
Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia, from international fiction star Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Juan Gabriel V squez 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, ...Show more
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, "A Life in Exile", it never occurs to him that his father, a distinguished professor of rhetoric, will write a devastating review in a leading newspaper. The subject seems inoffensive enough: the life of a German Jewish woman (a close family friend) who arr ...Show more
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jose Altamirano, Colombian at birth, who has just arrived in London, ...Show more
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
It is London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jose Altamirano, Colombian at birth, just arrived in London ans ...Show more
The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Description: The Shape of the Ruins by the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez, whose recent novel, the best-selling Sound of Things Falling won Spain's Alfaguara Prize, Italy's Von Rezzori Prize and the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award, was published to acclaim in Colombia last year and has just appe ...Show more
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The dark, brilliant new novel by the author of The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana. No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the li ...Show more
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