Name: The Informers
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Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
ISBN: 9781594484674

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Publisher

Riverhead

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781594484674

ISBN13

9781594484674

Synopsis "The Informers "

From the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a "brilliant new novel" (New York Times Book Review) and one of the most buzzed about books of the year!"One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWhen Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who escaped to Colombia during the 1930s, Gabriel's book seemed an innocent attempt to preserve a piece of his country's rapidly vanishing past. But as Gabriel pours over his research looking for clues to his father's anger, he discovers a sinister secret locked in the pages. After his father's death, and with the help of Sara Guterman and his father's girlfriend, Angelina, Gabriel peels back layer after shocking layer of family history-from the streets of 1940s Bogotá to a stranger's doorstep in 1990s Medellín-to reveal a hidden portrait of their past-dark, complex, and inescapable.Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed as one of the leading writers of his generation, compared to Borges, John Le Carre, Joseph Conrad and W. G. Sebald.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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(Bogotá, 1973) is the author of the short story collections Los amantes de Todos los Santos and Canciones para el incendio (Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Award) and the novels Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer (Alfaguara Award, Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze Award, The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Las reputaciones (Royal Spanish Academy Award, Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Literary Award, Casa da América Latina Award in Lisbon), La forma de las ruinas (Casino da Póvoa Literary Award) and Volver la vista atrás (Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Award). Vásquez has also published two collections of literary essays, El arte de la distorsión and Viajes con un mapa en blanco, and a brief biography of Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. He has translated works by Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo, and E. M. Forster, among others. He has won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award twice. In 2012, he won the Roger Caillois Award in Paris for his body of work. In 2016, he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic, and in 2018 he received the Order of Isabel la Católica. His books are published in 30 languages. He is a columnist for the Spanish newspaper El País.

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