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. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories.
Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion with these fragmented lives. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder that will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return from an expedition to find wood for their stove, while he lies in another woman’s bed a few miles away, unable to heal the wound in his own marriage. In these stories, there are love affairs, revenge, troubled pasts, and tender moments that reveal a person’s whole history in a few sentences.
Set in Europe (the scene of Vásquez’s own self-imposed exile from Latin America) and never before available in English, this collection evokes a singular mood and a tone, and showcase Vásquez’s hypnotic writing. Vásquez is a humane, deeply insightful writer, and these stories leave one feeling transformed from the experience of reading them, with a greater vision of humanity and society, a greater understanding of relationships and of love.
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Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Lovers on All Saints' Day : Stories
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback