Juan Gabriel Vásquez

A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets off a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.

"A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. 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...

Una colección de ensayos sobre el arte de la novela, por el ganador del Premio IMPAC y el Premio Alfaguara de Novela. Los seres humanos, sostiene este libro, no hemos inventado la novela: es la novela la que nos ha inventado a nosotros. Pero ¿qué nos dan las novelas que no nos puede dar ninguna otra forma narrativa? ¿Qué lugar ocupan en nuestras vidas como individuos y como sociedades? ¿Por qué son, según Vásquez, una manera irremplazable...

Memories, he thought, were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be visible. In October 2016, the Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera attends a retrospective of his films in Barcelona. It is a difficult moment: his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died; His marriage is in crisis, and his country has rejected peace agreements that would have allowed it to end more than fifty years of war. Throughout...