Juan Gabriel Vasquez

When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As...

Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014Winner of the Alfaguara Prize 2011Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2013No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogot' than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows...

London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jos' Altamirano, Colombian at birth, who has just arrived in London, answers the great writer's...

Hałas spadających rzeczy to opowieść o przerwanej przyjaźni. Ale także historia o miłości w niewłaściwych czasach oraz portret pokolenia sparaliżowanego strachem. I frapująca podróż w przeszłość pewnego człowieka i pewnego kraju.Kolumbia, Bogota, rok 1995. Kiedy Antonio Yammara poznaje przy stole bilardowym Ricarda Laverde, od razu wie, że życie...