Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-748-4
“That story is to blame,” declares a character in Colombian author Vasquez’s latest novel (after The Secret History of Costaguana). Indeed, this book is an exploration of the ways in which stories profoundly impact lives. Around 1996, when murder...
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59463-426-0
These stories from Vasquez (The Sound of Things Falling) were originally published in Spanish, in 2001, when the Colombian author was in self-imposed exile in Europe and aghast at how “fate or fluke is the name we give to events beyond our control...
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead, $27 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1114-8
Colombian novelist Vásquez (Reputations) is author, narrator, and protagonist of this clever, complex novel about political crimes, cover-ups, conspiracies, and conspiracy theories. In 2005, Vásquez meets conspiracy enthusiast Carlos Carballo at a...
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-5931-9013-5
Vásquez (The Sound of Things Falling), a Dublin Literary Award–winning Colombian novelist and journalist, delivers a bravura collection blending autofiction with stories of historical and personal trauma, each told by an unnamed Colombian novelist...
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-593-53961-3
Vásquez (The Shape of the Ruins) returns with a dramatic if bloated epic based on the lives of Colombian filmmaker Sergio Cabrera and his father, Fausto, an actor turned revolutionary. Days before a Catalonian retrospective honoring Sergio’s films...
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead, $27 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59463-347-8
Javier Mallarino, renowned political cartoonist, has reached the apex of his career. He’s feted at a ceremony with speeches and a commemorative stamp while his estranged wife (whom he loves) watches from the audience. But a film tribute shown during
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Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Author, Anne McLean, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead $25.95 (351p) ISBN 978-1-59448-878-8
Betrayals public and private collide in Colombian author Vásquez's first novel to appear in the States, a crushing and beautifully tricky novel. Gabriel Santoro's publication of a book about a family friend, Sara Guterman, a German...
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Juan Gabriel V%C3%A1squez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59448-803-0
On the day Joseph Conrad dies in England, the Colombian-born José Altamirano begins to write, for the edification of his daughter, the true story of his life and country, which were taken, compressed, and repurposed by Conrad in Nostromo. This is...
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