La Forma de Las Ruinas

El ganador del Premio IMPAC por El ruido de las cosas al caer (Premio Alfaguara 2011) vuelve con una apasionante novela sobre las tramas del poder y sus conspiraciones.
En el ano 2014 un hombre es apresado por intentar robar de un museo el traje de pano de un politico asesinado. Que esconde y qu [...]
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El ganador del Premio IMPAC por El ruido de las cosas al caer (Premio Alfaguara 2011) vuelve con una apasionante novela sobre las tramas del poder y sus conspiraciones.
En el ano 2014 un hombre es apresado por intentar robar de un museo el traje de pano de un politico asesinado. Que esconde y que conecta el asesinato de un senador colombiano en 1914, el del lider mas importante del partido liberal en 1948 cuya muerte hizo explotar la historia de Colombia por los aires, y el asesinato de JFK en Dallas, Texas, el 22 de noviembre de 1963? El protagonista de esta historia es un hombre obsesionado por el pasado, que busca senales y pistas para desentranar los misterios de la historia. Que pasa al mirar todos estos crimenes juntos? Es posible que emane de ellos alguna respuesta? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
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 Vasquez 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 Espanola 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 Toibin, Juan Marse, Nicole Krauss, and Edmund White.
In 2014, a man is apprehended at a museum in Bogota trying to steal the suit that an assassinated politician wore on the day of his death. What is behindand what is the link betweenthe 1914 attacks against Colombian senator Rafael Uribe Uribewho would inspire Garcia Marquez to create Aureliano Buendia from One Hundred Years of Solitude, the leader of the Liberal Party Jorge Eliecer Gaitanwhose death in 1948 would blow up the history of Colombia, and JFK in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963? Carlos Carballo, the protagonist of this story, is a man obsessed with the past who looks for signs and clues to unravel history s secrets and lies. What happens if you look at all these crimes together? Is it possible that they might hold an answer? Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the author-narrator of the novel, had a strange privilege: to hold in his hands the mortal remains of those two politicians whose assassinations affected the 20th century in Colombia.
This novel stems from that moment in his life. Those are the ruins described in the title. This is a tale about criminal investigations, but also about the relationship that we establish with the past and with political conspiracies, both real and imaginary. Why do they fascinate us? Why do we insist on searching for hidden culprits in the violent acts that have impacted our history? How do we inherit them even if they happened before we were born? By including himself as a narrator in a fiction work, Vasquez uses events in his own lifefrom the births of his daughters to the way that he came to hold the remains of two murdered mento reflect about these topics.
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