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 Lond[...]
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 an[...]
From the author of "The Sound of Things Falling," a "brilliant new novel" ("New York Times Book Review") and one of the most buzzed about books of the year
"One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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* National Bestseller
* Winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
* Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the "New York Times Book Review"
* One of NPR's 6 Best Books of the Summer
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"The exotic escape and subsequent capture of a hippopotamus, the final remnant of the incongruous zoo Pablo Escobar used to flaunt his power, is the spark that activates the mechanisms of Antonio Yammara's memory, protagonist and narrator of El ruido de las cosas al caer, a dark balance from a time [...]
Upon meeting Ricardo Laverde, Antonio Yammara suspects his new-found friend is hiding something. His fascination with Laverde's mysterious life becomes an obsession the day Laverde is murdered. El ruido de las cosas al caer is a story about a friendship frustrated by circumstances, a story of love i[...]
En makalöst vacker och välskriven roman av en av Sydamerikas största litterära stjärnor. Juan Gabriel Vásquez konfronterar, med ett särpräglat och egensinnigt språk, sitt hemland Colombias blodiga historia.I staden Bogotá läser juridikläraren Antonio Yammara en fascinerande artikel om en[...]
Turvallinen, luja, menestyvä, kansainvälinen. ABLOY-lukkoa kuvaavat mainesanat eivät jää katteetta Vuonna 1907 suomalainen hienomekaanikko Emil Henriksson oivalsi - syntyi ainutkertainen kiertyviin haittalevyihin perustuva ABLOY-lukkosylinteri. Ilman ponnisteluja ei Henrikssonin keksintö ole m[...]