The Resource The sound of things falling, Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
The sound of things falling, Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
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The item The sound of things falling, Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Alexandria-Monroe Public Library.
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- Contributor
- oIaoqxFT6Ls
- Summary
- "A young lawyer reflects on the mid-twentieth-century uprising between Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and government forces that trapped Pablo's community in a nightmarish existence and culminated in a friend's murder." --From NoveList
- Language
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- eng
- spa
- eng
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Note
- "Originally published in Spain 2011 by Alfaguara (Santillana Ediciones Generales) as El ruido de las cosas al caer."
- Isbn
- 9781594487484
- Label
- The sound of things falling
- Title
- The sound of things falling
- Statement of responsibility
- Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
- Contributor
- oIaoqxFT6Ls
- Subject
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- Murder -- Fiction
- Colombia -- History -- Fiction
- trueDrug traffic -- Colombia
- Drug traffic -- Colombia -- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMale friendship
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- trueMurder
- trueMurder witnesses
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueThrillers and suspense
- trueTranslations -- Spanish to English
- trueViolence
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueBogota, Colombia
- trueColombia -- History
- Language
-
- eng
- spa
- eng
- Summary
- "A young lawyer reflects on the mid-twentieth-century uprising between Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and government forces that trapped Pablo's community in a nightmarish existence and culminated in a friend's murder." --From NoveList
- Summary
- No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a library. The first time he glances up from his seat in the next booth, Antonio sees tears running down Laverde's cheeks; the next, the ex-pilot has gone. Shortly afterwards, Ricardo is shot dead on a street corner in Bogota by a guy on the back of a motorbike and Antonio is caught in the hail of bullets. Lucky to survive, and more out of love with life than ever, he starts asking questions until the questions become an obsession that leads him to Laverde's daughter. His troubled investigation leads all the way back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped a whole generation of Colombians in a living nightmare of fear and random death.
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2013.
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2014.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2013
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10191332
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vásquez, Juan Gabriel
- Dewey number
- 863/.64
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Spanish
- LC call number
- PQ8180.32.A797
- LC item number
- R8513 2013
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- McLean, Anne
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- True
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- Drug traffic
- Male friendship
- Murder
- Colombia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The sound of things falling, Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
- Note
- "Originally published in Spain 2011 by Alfaguara (Santillana Ediciones Generales) as El ruido de las cosas al caer."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20079509
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594487484
- Lccn
- 2013009330
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- The sound of things falling, Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
- Note
- "Originally published in Spain 2011 by Alfaguara (Santillana Ediciones Generales) as El ruido de las cosas al caer."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20079509
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594487484
- Lccn
- 2013009330
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
Subject
- Murder -- Fiction
- Colombia -- History -- Fiction
- trueDrug traffic -- Colombia
- Drug traffic -- Colombia -- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMale friendship
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- trueMurder
- trueMurder witnesses
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueThrillers and suspense
- trueTranslations -- Spanish to English
- trueViolence
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueBogota, Colombia
- trueColombia -- History
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Member of
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- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2013
- trueLiterary Thrillers
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2013
- trueInternational Dublin Literary Award
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