La Forma de Las Ruinas / The Shape of the Ruins - Paperback
La Forma de Las Ruinas / The Shape of the Ruins - Paperback
by Juan Gabriel V?squez (Author)
En la lista de los mejores libros de Publishers Weekly del 2018
La forma de las ruinas es al mismo tiempo una intriga de investigadores e investigados, una novela profundamente autobiográfica y una intensa exploración histórica.
La novela más importante de Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
Mario Vargas Llosa ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A Publisher Weekly Best Book 2018
The winner of the IMPAC Prize and the Alfaguara Novel Prize for The Sound of Things Falling brings us a thrilling novel about the intrigues of power and its conspiracies.
- His most important novel to date.
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most prominent young writers in the Spanish language.
- His previous novel, Reputations, received the 20th San Clemente Literary Prize and the Real Academia Española Prize.
- The Sound of Things Falling, 2011 Alfaguara Novel Prize winner, has been widely translated to other languages.
- He has been praised by the likes of Mario Vargas Llosa, John Banville, Javier Cercas, Colm Tóibín, Juan Marsé, Nicole Krauss, and Edmund White. A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. This novel explores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the ways in which past violence shapes our present lives. A compulsive read, beautiful and profound, eerily relevant to our times and deeply personal, The Shape of the Ruins is a tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our memories.
Author Biography
Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Bogotá, 1973) es autor de la colección de relatos Los amantes de Todos los Santos y de las novelas Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana, El ruido de las cosas al caer, Las reputaciones y La forma de las ruinas. Ha publicado también una recopilación de ensayos literarios, El arte de la distorsión, y una breve biografía de Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. Sus libros se publican actualmente en veintiocho lenguas y han merecido, entre otros, el Premio Alfaguara, el English Pen Award, el Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze, el IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, el Premio Real Academia Española, el Premio Casa de Amèrica Latina de Lisboa y el Premio Roger Caillois por el conjunto de su obra, otorgado anteriormente a escritores como Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes y Ricardo Piglia. Ha traducido obras de Joseph Conrad y Victor Hugo, entre otros, y en 2016 fue nombrado Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras de la República francesa.