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В октябре 2016 года колумбийский режиссер Серхио Кабрера приезжает на ретроспективу своих фильмов в Барселоне. Это трудное для него время: только что умер его отец, а отношения с женой находятся в глубоком кризисе. У Серхио есть несколько дней, чтобы оглянуться назад, вспомнить события, которые сделали его тем, кто он есть на самом деле. Гражданская война в Испании, Культурная революция в Китае, партизанская борьба в Латинской Америке - это не просто отвлеченная история, но юность, отданная на борьбу за идеалы. Иногда жизнь - это больше, чем затянувшееся приключение. Особенно если человек становится участником исторических событий, которые…

Блистательный исторический и постмодернистский роман от автора книги «Шум падающих вещей». Много лет назад уроженец Колумбии Хосе Альтамирано рассказал писателю Джозефу Конраду историю своей жизни, и она под пером писателя превратилась в вымысел, роман «Ностромо». Раз рываемая политической борьбой Колумбия стала в нем полумифической Костагуаной. Но теперь колумбиец жаждет сам записать свою жгучую исповедь и восстановить истинный ход событий — бури революций, поиски отца, эпопею строительства Панамского канала, обстоятельства неожиданной любви и бегства в Европу… Хуан Габриэль Васкес с изобретательностью, достойной наследника Маркеса,…

No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogota than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette.
Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner.
Yammara's investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.

As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogota before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colon, he contemplates the start of his professional life; how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure from his past, now a young woman, emerges from the crowd and forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation and the value of his life's work.

An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions.

The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the events that marked his family's unusual and dramatic lives: especially his father's, his sister Marianella's and his own.

Growing up in Colombia as the children of famous actors, Sergio and Marianella were privileged and artistic, until their parents became disillusioned with bourgeois conventions and moved the entire family to China. Mao's Cultural Revolution was underway and the family lived in an entirely ex-pat hotel where they learned Chinese and joined the revolution, became members of the Red Guard, and trained as guerilla fighters. When they returned to Colombia to support the revolution there, they were sent into the countryside to join the guerilla force, were shot at and nearly died. Out of these lives molded by ideology and zealotry, came an artistic second life for Sergio as he escaped the movement and became his country's most celebrated film director.

From the Spanish Civil War to the exile of his family to Latin America, and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla movements of 1960s Colombia, Sergio and his family's experience is extraordinary by any standards. Equal parts family saga and epic historical novel, Retrospective reveals the story of one man and his family -- based on real people and events -- and a devastating portrait of the forces that shaped their lives, and for half a century turned the world upside down.

En octubre de 2016, el director de cine colombiano Sergio Cabrera asiste en Barcelona a una retrospectiva de sus películas. Es un momento difícil: su padre, Fausto Cabrera, acaba de morir; su matrimonio está en crisis, y su país ha rechazado unos acuerdos de paz que le habrían permitido terminar con más de cincuenta años de guerra.

A lo largo de unos días reveladores, Sergio irá recordando los hechos que marcaron su vida y la de su padre. De la guerra civil española al exilio en América de su familia republicana, de la China de la Revolución Cultural a los movimientos armados de los años sesenta, el lector asistirá a una vida que es mucho más que una gran aventura: es una imagen de medio

siglo de historia que trastornó al mundo entero.

Volver la vista atrás cuenta hechos reales, pero sólo en manos de un novelista magistral como Vásquez podía convertirse en este retrato devastador de una familia arrastrada por las fuerzas de la historia. Una fascinante investigación social y a la vez íntima, política y a la vez privada, que el lector no olvidará.

В романе Хуана Габриэля Васкеса, самого известного современного писателя Колумбии, «наследника Маркеса», как именует его пресса, есть все, что предполагает качественная литература: острый закрученный сюжет, психологическая драма, тропические цветы и запахи, непростые любовные отношения. Колумбия еще только оправляется от жесткой войны правительства с Пабло Эскобаром. На улицах Боготы еще гибнут люди. Молодой преподаватель права Антонио Яммара становится свидетелем убийства бывшего летчика Рикардо Лаверде и начинает расследование. Сцены романа будоражат воображение: убитый бегемот из зоопарка наркобарона, бывший заключенный, со слезами…

В романе Хуана Габриэля Васкеса, самого известного современного писателя Колумбии, "наследника Маркеса", как именует его пресса, есть все, что предполагает качественная литература: острый закрученный сюжет, психологическая драма, тропические цветы и запахи, непростые любовные отношения. Колумбия еще только оправляется от жесткой войны правительства с Пабло Эскобаром. На улицах Боготы еще гибнут люди. Молодой преподаватель права Антонио Яммара становится свидетелем убийства бывшего летчика Рикардо Лаверде и начинает расследование. Сцены романа будоражат воображение: убитый бегемот из зоопарка наркобарона, бывший заключенный, со слезами…

Молодой писатель ненадолго возвращается в родную Колумбию из Европы, но отпуск оказывается длиннее запланированного, когда его беременная жена попадает в больницу. Пытаясь отвлечься от тревоги, Хуан бродит по знакомым улицам, но с каждым шагом Богота будто затягивает его в дебри своей кровавой истории, заставляя все глубже погружаться в тайны убийств, определивших судьбу Колумбии на много лет вперед. Итак, согласно официальной версии, 9 апреля 1948 года случайный прохожий застрелил Хорхе Элесьера Гайтана, лидера либеральной партии, юриста и непревзойденного оратора. Но был ли выстрел, чьим эхом стали годы кровопролития, действительно…

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.

En octubre de 2016, el director de cine colombiano Sergio Cabrera asiste en Barcelona a una retrospectiva de sus películas. Es un momento difícil: su padre, Fausto Cabrera, acaba de morir; su matrimonio está en crisis, y su país ha rechazado unos acuerdos de paz que le habrían permitido terminar con más de cincuenta años de guerra.

A lo largo de unos días reveladores, Sergio irá recordando los hechos que marcaron su vida y la de su padre. De la guerra civil española al exilio en América de su familia republicana, de la China de la Revolución Cultural a los movimientos armados de los años sesenta, el lector asistirá a una vida que es mucho más que una gran aventura: es una imagen de medio

siglo de historia que trastornó al mundo entero.

Volver la vista atrás cuenta hechos reales, pero sólo en manos de un novelista magistral como Vásquez podía convertirse en este retrato devastador de una familia arrastrada por las fuerzas de la historia. Una fascinante investigación social y a la vez íntima, política y a la vez privada, que el lector no olvidará.

Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant.
A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront his past. A walk-on part in a Polanski film finds the narrator searching the director's face for signs of the aftermath of Sharon Tate's murder.
The internet search for a book published

It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired Garcia Marquez's General Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and of the charismatic Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the man who might have been Colombia's J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of success in the presidential elections of 1948. Separated by more than 30 years, the two murders at first appear unconnected, but as the novel progresses Vasquez reveals how between them they contain the seeds of the violence that has bedevilled Colombia ever since.
The Shape of Ruins is Vasquez's most ambitious, challenging and rewarding novel to date. His previous novel, The Sound of Things Falling, won Spain's Alfaguara Prize, Italy's Von Rezzori Prize and the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award.

Whilst pacing the dark and lonely corridors of a hospital in Bogotá during the premature birth of his twin daughters, Juan Gabriel Vásquez befriends a kindly physician, Doctor Benavides. Through the doctor, Vásquez meets Carlos Carballo. A middle-aged man, Carballo is consumed by a conspiracy theory about the assassination of an up and coming politician and JFK-like figure Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in 1948. He tries to persuade Vásquez to write a novel about the murder, but despite repeated refusals Vásquez is drawn deeper into the conspiracy when Gaitán’s vertebrae, stored in a glass jar in a mutual friend’s house, goes missing. Sparking a turn of events, Varquez opens up a second, even darker conspiracy about the assassination of another politician, Rafael Uribe Uribe, in 1914.

From the brilliant mind of the author of The Sound of Things Falling, a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.

Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges' decisions, destroying politicians' careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage.

At sixty-five, after four decades of a brilliant career, he's at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he's paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to re-evaluate his life and work, questioning his position in the world.

In Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vásquez examines the weight of the past, how a public persona intersects with private histories, and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel, Vásquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story, one that reverberates long after you turn the final page.

Молодой писатель ненадолго возвращается в родную Колумбию из Европы, но отпуск оказывается длиннее запланированного, когда его беременная жена попадает в больницу. Пытаясь отвлечься от тревоги, Хуан бродит по знакомым улицам, но с каждым шагом Богота будто затягивает его в дебри своей кровавой истории, заставляя все глубже погружаться в тайны убийств, определивших судьбу Колумбии на много лет вперед. Итак, согласно официальной версии, 9 апреля 1948 года случайный прохожий застрелил Хорхе Элесьера Гайтана, лидера либеральной партии, юриста и непревзойденного оратора. Но был ли выстрел, чьим эхом стали годы кровопролития, действительно случайным?

From the award-winning, bestselling author of "The Sound of Things Falling", a brilliant collection of stories that showcases why he is one of the best writers—in any language—working today.

"Lovers on All Saints' Day" is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories.

Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion with these fragmented lives. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder that will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return from an expedition to find wood for their stove, while he lies in another woman’s bed a few miles away, unable to heal the wound in his own marriage. In these stories, there are love affairs, revenge, troubled pasts, and tender moments that reveal a person’s whole history in a few sentences.

Set in Europe (the scene of Vásquez’s own self-imposed exile from Latin America) and never before available in English, this collection evokes a singular mood and a tone, and showcase Vásquez’s hypnotic writing. Vásquez is a humane, deeply insightful writer, and these stories leave one feeling transformed from the experience of reading them, with a greater vision of humanity and society, a greater understanding of relationships and of love.

Javier Mallarino es una leyenda viva.

Es el caricaturista político más influyente del país, “un hombre capaz de causar la revocación de una ley, trastornar el fallo de un magistrado, tumbar a un alcalde o amenazar gravemente la estabilidad de un ministerio, y eso con las únicas armas del papel y la tinta china”. Los políticos le temen y el gobierno le hace homenajes. A sus sesenta y cinco años, después de cuatro décadas de brillante carrera, puede decir que tiene el país a sus pies. Pero todo eso cambiará cuando reciba la visita inesperada de una mujer. Tras remontarse con ella al recuerdo de una noche ya remota, Mallarino se verá obligado a revaluar toda su vida, a poner en entredicho su posición en este mundo. En Las reputaciones, Juan Gabriel Vásquez vuelve sobre sus más intensas obsesiones: el peso del pasado, los fallos de la memoria, la manera en que se cruzan nuestras vidas con el mundo político. Pero es también una novela sobre la importancia que tiene la opinión en nuestras sociedades. En el exigente género de la novela corta, que tantas obras maestras ha dado en la tradición latinoamericana, Vásquez nos regala su obra más íntima: una intensa reflexión sobre la debilidad de los juicios públicos y privados, sobre los encuentros irreversibles que alteran para siempre lo que creemos definitivo de nosotros.

The dark, brilliant new novel by the author of The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana. No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a library. The first time he glances up from his seat in the next booth, Antonio sees tears running down Laverde's cheeks; the next, the ex-pilot has gone. Shortly afterwards, Ricardo is shot dead on a street corner in Bogota by a guy on the back of a motorbike and Antonio is caught in the hail of bullets. Lucky to survive, and more out of love with life than ever, he starts asking questions until the questions become an obsession that leads him to Laverde's daughter. His troubled investigation leads all the way back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped a whole generation of Colombians in a living nightmare of fear and random death. Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the leading novelists of his generation, and The Sound of Things Falling that tackles what became of Colombia in the time of Pablo Escobar is his best book to date.