Songs for the flames
Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-2021
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Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront his past. A walk-on part in a Polanski film finds the narrator searching the director's face for signs of the aftermath of Sharon Tate's murder. The internet search for a book published in 1887, leads a writer to discover the life of a passionate woman. The characters in 'Songs for the Flames' are men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly, sometimes only tangentially - but whose lives are changed forever by an unexpected encounter or by the operation of incomprehensible forces.
Main title:
Songs for the flames / Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Author:
Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-, authorMcLean, Anne, 1962-, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, [2021]
Collation:
220 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This translation originally published: 2020.
ISBN:
9781529405477 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
2543494