Product Description: From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations, a brilliant collection of stories that showcases why he is one of the best writers—in any language—working today.   Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces...read more

A brilliant novel about the power of politics and personal memory from one of South America's literary stars, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling.Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges' decisions, destroying politicians' careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage.After four decades of a brilliant career, he's at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he's paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to re-evaluate his life and work, questioning his position in the world.In Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vásquez examines the weight of the past, how a public persona intersects with private histories, and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel that recalls authors like Coetzee and Ian McEwan, Vásquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story, one that reverberates long after you turn the final page.Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Newsweek, the Guardian, and Kirkus

Product Description: 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 of terror and violence, set in a Bogota painted as a region full of literary significance...read more

Product Description: Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que en el pasado de su nuevo amigo hay un secreto, o quiza varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obsesion el dia en que este es asesinado...read more

A bold historical novel from "one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature" (Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature). In the early twentieth century, a struggling Joseph Conrad wrote his great novel Nostromo, about a South American republic he named Costaguana. It was inspired by the geography and history of Colombia, where Conrad spent only a few days. But in Juan Gabriel Vásquez's novel The Secret History of Costaguana, we uncover the hidden source- and one of the great literary thefts. On the day of Joseph Conrad's death in 1924, the Colombian-born José Altamirano begins to write and cannot stop. Many years before, he confessed to Conrad his life's every delicious detail-from his country's heroic revolutions to his darkest solitary moments. Conrad stole them all. Now Conrad is dead, but the slate is by no means clear- Nostromo will live on and Altamirano must write himself back into existence. As the destinies of real empires collide with the murky realities of imagined ones, Vásquez takes us from a flourishing twentieth-century London to the lawless fury of a blooming Panama and back. Tragic and despairing, comic and insightful, The Secret History of Costaguana is a masterpiece of historical invention. It will secure Juan Gabriel Vásquez's place among the most original and exuberantly talented novelists working today.

When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the guilt and complicity at the heart of Colombian society, as one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance half a century later.

Product Description: With Los informantes and Historia secreta de Costaguara, Vásquez has positioned himself as one of the most important writers of his generation. Here, he presents us with a new facet of his literary work: seventeen explorations that reveal a sharp, original and passionate reader; seventeen ways of confirming that fiction is like a drug, and its reader, an addict...read more

Product Description: A writer's life is forever marked by a witnessed death. A hunter tries to save his marriage while sleeping at a stranger's house. One night, an unforeseen meeting will change the future of a famous horseman's son. The stories take place between France and Belgium, where the author has spent many years of his life preoccupied with universal truths: love and the loss of love, loneliness and guilt...read more

Product Description: In the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, a group of teenaged boys faces its last year in a private Catholic school, attended mostly by the children of upper-class families. Drunken nights, first experiences with drugs and sex, and continuous disciplinary problems are some of the rites of passage with which the students unknowingly try to assert their individuality...read more

Josâe Altamirano arrives in London in 1903 after witnessing the horrible recent events in a Caribbean country he does not want to remember, but he does not expect what is about to happen when he meets the famous novelist Joseph Conrad.

Years after the publication of his first book--a life of his neighbor, a refugee from Nazi Germany--causes a deep rift with his father, Colombian journalist Gabriel Santoro begins to learn the secrets that his work inadvertently reveals.

Endeavoring to decipher a five-hundred-year old text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, researchers Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret.

Product Description: Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness, and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium's Ardennes, these stories have been compared to Maupassant, Chekhov, John Cheever, and Antonio Tabucchi...read more