The sound of falling objects

El ruido de las cosas al caer

The first Latin American novel to win the International Dublin Literary Award, enthusiastically read by readers in 30 countries around the world More realistic than One Hundred Years of Solitude, more realistic than Narcos Winner of the Fountain Prize, praised by Vargas Llosa and Fuentes A family's ups and downs, a secret history of contemporary Colombia Synopsis
In 2009, a hippopotamus that had once lived in Pablo Escobar's private zoo escaped and was shot dead. The news reminded Antonio Yámara of a former friend, the enigmatic Ricardo Laverde.
They met in a billiard hall in 1995. At that time, Yamara was a young law professor and Laverde was a down-and-out middle-aged man who had just been released from prison. They were very close for a time and almost became close friends who knew each other's secrets.
One day in 1996, they were shot on the street. Laverde died and Yamara was seriously injured. She suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and her family life was shaken.
Two years later, Yamara returns to the place where the accident happened. In order to escape the pain, he must go back to the past and solve the mystery that entangles him. At this time, a strange phone call makes him embark on a journey to the past, and many secrets are revealed one by one.
Excellent book review
1. Quiet and elegant... Vázquez is a witty storyteller whose scenes and dialogue sparkle with carefully chosen details. His themes resonate convincingly across family resemblances, doomed flights, and even the recurring theme of hippos. He escapes the long shadow of García Márquez with a realistic realism that speaks volumes all its own. —Bloomberg News
2. Through its masterful use of overlapping time periods, swirling mysteries, and a dark palette, The Sound of Falling Objects reveals how individual lives are overshadowed by history, how the past continues to haunt the present, and how the destinies of individuals and nations are altered by distant or hidden events. —International Dublin Literary Award Jury
3. An innovator of 21st-century Latin American literature. —Jonathan Franzen
4. He gave us the sound of planes crashing, bodies falling, and the inexorable unraveling of life. He gave us the most compelling Latin American novel I have read since Roberto Bolaño's 2666. - National Public Radio (NPR)
5. Like Bolaño, Gabriel Vázquez is a stylist, a master of patient pacing and delicate structure, and he achieves with this novel what Bolaño once did: to depict the deep, gushing damage that greed and violence have inflicted on our world and to acknowledge that even love cannot repair it. —Lev Grossman, Time
6. Gabriel Vázquez is a truly remarkable writer. "The Sound of Falling Things" is a subtle, contemplative mystery. And its powerful sense of irreversible fate haunts the reader even after he or she has finished it. —EL Doctorow
7. "The Sound of Falling Objects" is a masterful chronicle of how the violence between drug cartels and government forces spreads, affecting and corroding the lives of ordinary people. His stark realism—the antithesis of his compatriot Gabriel García Márquez's magical twists—combined with his lyrical treatment of memory, produces a reading that is both thrilling and sobering. —Malcolm Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle
8. A brilliant novel, thrilling and captivating from beginning to end. The Sound of Falling Things may be an irresistible novel, but it is also a profound meditation on fate and death. —Edmund White, The New York Times Book Review

2021-01-01

上海人民出版社

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