Retrospective (eBook)

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"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

"Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian

He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen...

In October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is attending a retrospective of his films in Barcelona. It's a difficult time for him: his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war.

In the course of a few turbulent and intense days, Sergio will recall the events that marked the family's life, and especially his father's, his sister Marianella's and his own.

From the Spanish Civil War to the exile of his republican family in Latin America, and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla movements of 1960s Latin America, not only will do we discover a series of adventures extraordinary by any standards, but also a devastating portrait of the forces that for half a century turned the world upside down and created the one we now inhabit.

Retrospective is a revelatory and unforgettable novel.

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

"Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian

He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen...

In October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is attending a retrospective of his films in Barcelona. It's a difficult time for him: his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war.

In the course of a few turbulent and intense days, Sergio will recall the events that marked the family's life, and especially his father's, his sister Marianella's and his own.

From the Spanish Civil War to the exile of his republican family in Latin America, and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla movements of 1960s Latin America, not only will do we discover a series of adventures extraordinary by any standards, but also a devastating portrait of the forces that for half a century turned the world upside down and created the one we now inhabit.

Retrospective is a revelatory and unforgettable novel.

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

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VerlagQuercus
EinbandAdobe Digital Editions
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Seitenangabe496 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Masse9'000 KB
PlattformEPUB
AutorVásquez, Juan Gabriel / Mclean, Anne (Übers.)

Über den Autor Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He is the author of six previous novels, including The Informers and Reputations, and two collections of stories, The All Saints' Day Lovers and Songs for the Flames. He is the winner of many prizes including in 2014 the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Gregor von Rezzori Prize and the Alfaguara Prize for The Sound of Things Falling. In 2019 The Shape of the Ruins was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and in 2021 he received the biennial Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize for Retrospective. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Madrid.

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