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Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-
Subjects
Violence -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
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Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-
Violence -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
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Songs
for the
flames
:
stories
/ Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
by
Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-
Riverhead Books, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION VAS
Subjects
Violence -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780593190135 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Canciones para el incendio. English.
Edition:
1st North American ed.
Description:
240 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"First published in Columbia as Canciones para el incendio by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. S., Bogota, in 2018. First published in Great Britain as
Songs
for the
Flames
by MacLehose Press ... London, in 2020"--Title age verso.
In English, translated from the Spanish.
Contents:
Woman on the riverbank -- The double -- Frogs -- Bad news -- Us -- Airport -- The boys -- The last corrido --
Songs
for the
flames
.
Summary:
"A new collection of electric, searing
stories
from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The characters in
Songs
for the
Flames
are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing--but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a countryside ranch, would rather leave behind. A military reunion forces a soldier to confront a troubling history, both personal and on a larger scale. And in a tour de force piece, the search for a book leds a writer to the fascinating story of why a woman is buried next to a graveyard, rather than in it--and the remarkable account of her journey from France to Colombia as a child orphan. Juan Gabriel Vásquez returns to
stories
with these nine morally complex tales, fresh proof of his narrative versatility and his profound understanding of the lives of others. There's a romantic wistfulness that combusts with the realities of dangerous histories, both personal and political, to throw these characters into the
flames
from which they either emerge purified, reborn, or burned and destroyed"--From publisher.
Genre:
Short
stories
.
Short
stories
, Spanish.
Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.
Holds:
1
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION VAS
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