The Sound Of Things Falling Av Juan Gabriel Vasquez

<p><b>Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award<br>Winner of the Alfaguara Prize</b><br><b>Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize</b><br><br><b>''A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn’t choose to fight''</b> <i>The Times</i><br><br><i><b>''</b></i><b>The story is compelling but through Vásquez’s vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting … A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in a country scrabbling to regain its soul'' </b><i>Financial Times</i><br><br>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.<br><br>Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner.<br><br>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.</p>