Shape of the Ruins Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
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JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ is the author of five previous novels, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, Reputations, The Sound of Things Falling and International Booker-shortlisted The Shape of the Ruins, as well as two acclaimed story collections The All Saints' Day Lovers and Songs for the Flames. He is also the translator into Spanish of works by E. M. Forster, John Hersey and Victor Hugo. His own books have been translated into more than twenty languages. ANNE MCLEAN has translated works by Hector Abad, Julio Cortázar and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero, and in 2012 was awarded the Spanish Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.One of the most original new writers of Latin American Literature.
- Mario Vargas Llosa,
For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist, then Juan Gabriel Vásquez . . . is a thrilling new discovery.
- Colm Tóibín, Guardian.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez . . . has succeeded García Márquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia
- Ariel Dorfman, New York Review of Books
A masterful writer . . . Juan Gabriel Vásquez has many gifts--intelligence, wit, energy, a deep vein of feeling--but he uses them so naturally that soon enough one forgets one's amazement at his talents, and then the strange, beautiful sorcery of his tale takes hold
- Nicole Krauss,
Like Don DeLillo's JFK-themed <i>Libra</i>, the novel is an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction
- Malcolm Forbes, Glasgow Herald
Juan Gabriel Vásquez's <i>The Shape of the Ruins</i> is a highly sophisticated, fast-moving political thriller set in Colombia and an excellent read
- Alan Furst,
Juan Gabriel Vásquez's latest and most ambitious novel.... A dazzlingly choreographed network of echoes and mirrorings
Times Literary Supplement
With utmost skill, Vásquez has us accompany him in his detective work, proposing a reflection on ghosts from the past and the inheritance of blame, doubt and fear
El Pais
Absolutely hypnotic, a display of tense, agile, intelligent narrative, it takes conspiracy to a whole other level
El Cultural
Assembled with satisfying complexity . . . it's his most ambitious and accomplished work yet.
- Daniel Hahn, Prospect
This clever, labyrinthine, thoroughly enjoyable historical novel by the Colombian author of <i>The Informers</i> and <i>The Sound of Things Falling</i> entangles the two deaths and investigates the internecine politics that lay behind them.
- M John Harrison, Guardian
Beautifully voiced by his serial translator Anne McLean, Vásquez writes with the elliptical feints and ruses of a story-teller who admires Joseph Conrad in his most delphic moods. The result is sly, subtle, captivating.
- Boyd Tonkin, Spectator.
The most famous novelist to come out of Colombia since Gabriel García Márquez. His subtle, nuanced fiction uses the tools of documentary reportage - historical sleuthing and interviews with witnesses - to steer readers through the nation's labyrinthine past
1843 Mag (Economist)
[A] gripping novel by one of Colombia's finest authors
- Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times