Las reputaciones, the new novel by 2011 Alfaguara Prize-winner Juan Gabriel Vasquez is on sale now.
MIAMI, Nov. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Las reputaciones, the latest work by Juan Gabriel Vasquez is now available in bookstores nationwide. In 2011, Vasquez was awarded the Alfaguara Novel Prize for El ruido de las cosas al caer. Published earlier this year by Penguin under the title The Sound of Things Falling, the national bestseller was hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and recommended by Esquire magazine "if you read only one book this month."
Mario Vargas Llosa describes Vasquez as "One of the most original voices of the new Latin-American literature," and Nicole Krauss names him "An extraordinary writer. Juan Gabriel Vasquez has many gifts—intelligence, ingenuity, energy, a fount of deep emotions—but he uses them so effortlessly that one quickly ceases to be surprised by his talents, and it is then that the strange and beautiful magic of the story takes control."
In Las reputaciones, Juan Gabriel Vasquez comes back to his deepest obsessions: the burden of the past, the failings of memory, and the way our lives and the world of politics intertwine. In the exacting genre of the novella, which has seen so many masterpieces from the Latin American tradition, Vasquez writes his most intimate novel to date—an intense reflection on the limitation of public and private judgments, the significance of public opinion in our societies, and the encounters that irrevocably alter that which we held as definite in ourselves.
Las reputaciones follows Javier Mallarino, a living legend, the most influential political cartoonist in the country, "a man capable of reversing a law, overturning the ruling of a judge, knocking down a mayor or seriously threatening the stability of a ministry, and all with paper and ink as his only weapons." Now in his sixties and after a brilliant career of forty years, the man feared by politicians and by the government can safely say he has the world at his feet. But everything will change when the unexpected appearance of a woman takes Mallarino back to a long-ago night, and forces him to reevaluate his life and question his place in the world.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1973. The is the author of the short story book Los amantes de Todos los Santos (Alfaguara 2001) and three novels. In Colombia, Los informantes was selected as one of the most important novels of the past 25 years and it was shortlisted for the UK's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Historia secreta de Costaguana won the Qwerty award to the best Spanish language novel (Barcelona), the Fundacion Libros & Letras award (Bogota) and is currently on the short list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize to be announced in London this coming May 26. El ruido de las cosas al caer was the winner of the 2011 Alfaguara Novel Prize. Vasquez has lived in Paris and the Belgian Ardennes, and in 1999 he set permanent residence in Barcelona. He has translated works by John Hersey, Victor Hugo, and E. M. Forster, among others, and his journalistic work is also notable. Vasquez is a columnist for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and the recipient of the Simon Bolivar Journalism Award for El arte de la distorsion, an essay included in the book by the same name. He is also the author of a brief biography of Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte (2007). Vasquez's works have been translated in 14 languages.
SOURCE Santillana USA Publishing
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