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Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973- author.
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Murder -- Fiction.
Politicians -- Colombia -- Fiction.
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The shape of the rui...
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The shape of the ruins / Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
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Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973- author.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Subjects
Murder -- Fiction.
Politicians -- Colombia -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780735211148 (hardcover) :
Description:
509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The man who spoke of inauspicious dates -- Relics of the illustrious dead -- A wounded animal -- Why swell'st thou then? -- The major wound -- The investigation -- Who are they? -- The trial -- The shape of the ruins.
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"A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. A man is arrested at a museum in Colombia for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of an assassin. The incident barely makes the news though the political murder this assassin committed years before set off riots that ushered in a decade of bloody civil war in the country -- "La Violencia"--A time that still echos throughout Colombia. Soon this theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular obsessions with conspiracy theories and the truth; and it haunts the people who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. This novel explores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the hidden characters who have unknowingly shaped its modern landscape. A compulsive read, beautiful and profound and eerily relevant to our times, The Shape of the Ruins is the tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our political memory"--
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