The Sound of Things Falling
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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About The Sound of Things Falling
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
Bogotá 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 Bogotá 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.
Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the leading novelists of his generation, and The Sound of Things Falling that tackles what became of Colombia in the time of Pablo Escobar is his best book to date.
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| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781408825792 |
| PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |








