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Songs for the Flames

โ€Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structureโ€ LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazineโ€Juan Gabriel Vasquez . . . has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombiaโ€ ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of BooksA morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019).A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a Korean War veteran to confront a shameful secret. And in the title story, an internet search for a book published in 1887 leads to the discovery of the life of a remarkable woman: Aurelia de Leon, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of her adoptive country`s deep conservatism.The characters in Songs for the Flames are all men and women touched by violence – sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially – but the lives of all of them are irrevocably changed by the experience.Translated from the Spanish by Anne McClean

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