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Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne, and has translated works by E. M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. His previous books have won the IMPAC Award, the Qwerty prize, the Alfaguara Prize and the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2014 IMPAC Prize. His books have been published in sixteen languages and thirty countries. After sixteen years in France, Belgium and Spain, he now lives in Bogotá. Anne McLean has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors including Hector Abad, Carmen Martín Gaite, Julio Cortázar, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Enrique Vila-Matas and Tomás Eloy Martínez. She lives in Toronto.The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page ... Terrific
<b>Khaled Hosseini, Books of the Year, on <i>The Sound of Things Falling</i></b>
One of the most original new writers of Latin American Literature
<b>Mario Vargas Llosa</b>
A masterful writer
<b>Nicole Krauss</b>
Vásquez is one of the great revelations of recent years
<B>J. A. Masoliver Rodénas, <I>La Vanguardia</B></I>
Where Carver abandons his Hopper-like silhouettes, Vásquez rescues them
<B>Miguel Silva, <I>Gatopardo</B></I>
In the architecture of the collection one thinks of what Tobias Wolff said, quoted in the afterword by Vasquez: “A collection of novellas should be like a novel in which the characters do not know each other” … There are literary echoes of <i>Madame Bovary</i>, <i>David Copperfield</i>, Georges Perec … A major name to follow
<B><I>Le Figaro</I></B>