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The sound of things falling / Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2013.Description: 297 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781408831618 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Ruido de las cosas al caer. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 863.7 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ8180.32.A797
Awards:
  • English PEN Award
Summary: No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette. Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner. Yammara's investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F VAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R14717Y0499

This translation originally published: 2012.

No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette. Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner. Yammara's investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.

English PEN Award

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