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The Sound of Things Falling

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Description for The Sound of Things Falling Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.

Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Winner of the Alfaguara Prize

Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize

'A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn’t choose to fight' The Times

'The story is compelling but through Vásquez’s vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting … A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in a country scrabbling to regain its soul' Financial Times

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Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408831618
SKU
V9781408831618
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne between 1996 and 1998, and now lives in Barcelona. His stories have appeared in anthologies in Germany, France, Spain and Colombia, and he has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. He was ... Read more

Reviews for The Sound of Things Falling
A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn’t choose to fight
Kate Saunders, The Times
The story is compelling but through Vásquez’s vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting … A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Sound of Things Falling


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