{"product_id":"songs-for-the-flames","title":"Songs for the Flames","description":"\"Like Bolaño, Vásquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure\" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Juan Gabriel Vásquez . . . has succeeded García Márquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia\" ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a Korean War veteran to confront a shameful secret. And in the title story, an internet search for a book published in 1887 leads to the discovery of the life of a remarkable woman: Aurelia de Léon, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of her adoptive country''s deep conservatism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe characters in Songs for the Flames are all men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly, sometimes tangentially - but the lives of all of them are irrevocably changed by the experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Anne McLean","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57111363420495,"sku":"9781529405446","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/songs-for-the-flames","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}