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...In the Madonna/whore roles into which most women are inevitably cast when they become a public figure, Moss’s appearance, like some avenging angel from Sarf London, did not serve Heard so well....
...The Shape of the Ruins , by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne MacLean, Maclehose Press, RRP£20/Riverhead, RRP$27 In this gripping novel by one of Colombia’s finest authors, the past weighs heavily...
...Reputations, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury, RRP£14.99/Riverhead, RRP$25 In the latest offering by the Colombian author of The Sounds of Things Falling, a celebrated political...
...The All Saints’ Day Lovers, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 The latest offering by Colombia’s Impac Prize-winning author is a collection of short stories mostly...
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...The Sound of Things Falling, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99, 320 pages The drug-related violence that shook Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s has become fertile...
...The award, says Vásquez, Barral, “started a movement that took Latin American literature out of Latin America and put it at the centre of 20th century western culture”....
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana FT fiction reviewer ………………………………………….....
...But Mr Vasquez, 34, is not your average budding entrepreneur....
...I used to sit in Claudio’s studio in the cool of the early morning, chatting with him and watching those paper saints and angels bloom under his and his two brothers’ supple fingers....
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