Juan Gabriel Vásquez, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Riverhead, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-748-4 “That story is to blame,” declares a character in Colombian author Vasquez’s latest novel ...

To read "The Informers" is to enjoy the shock of new talent. It is the first work of Juan Gabriel Vasquez, a 35-year-old Colombian, to be translated into English. His novel is subtle, surprising and ...

Juan Gabriel Vásquez's fictive worlds are plundered pasts. His breakthrough novel in English, "The Informers" (2009), shined a light on an untold chapter of the Second World War and exposed skeletons ...

San Juan, 11 oct (EFEUSA).San Juan, 11 oct (EFEUSA). — El escritor colombiano Juan Gabriel Vásquez denunció hoy que en su país “han retrocedido las libertades civiles” y la sociedad se ha vuelto “más ...

Washington, 25 oct (EFEUSA).Washington, 25 oct (EFEUSA). — Inmerso en la “obsesión” por la memoria de su país, Colombia, el escritor Juan Gabriel Vásquez explora en su nueva novela, “La forma de las ...

Juan Gabriel Vasquez opens Lovers on All Saints' Day with a line that's almost a thesis statement. "I didn't leave Belgium much during that season," says the narrator at the start of "Hiding Places," ...

There was a time not so long ago when Latin American literature, as it appeared on college syllabi, in critical discourse, and in writers' own spheres of influence, summoned up the whimsical and ...

Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez gained attention in the U.S. a few years ago with his superb novel “The Sound of Things Falling.” His follow-up, “Reputations,” is a profound, exquisitely ...

Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born in Bogotá on January 1, 1973) is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the ...

Colombia. The drug trade. Multiple plane crashes, drive-by shootings, Peace Corps hippies who peddle drugs, and an actual hippo on the loose. Despite all of that, there's actually not much plot to ...

Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez tells it like it is when it comes to his country There is a museum in downtown Bogotá, Colombia's drizzly capital, where a lawyer's pinstripe suit stands on ...