Retrospective av Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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<p><b>"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA</b><br><br><b>"Beautifully written and gripping" <i>Guardian</i><br><br></b><b>He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen...</b><br><br> In October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is attending a retrospective of his films in Barcelona. It''s a difficult time for him: his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war.<br><br> In the course of a few turbulent and intense days, Sergio will recall the events that marked the family''s life, and especially his father''s, his sister Marianella''s and his own. <br><br>From the Spanish Civil War to the exile of his republican family in Latin America, and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla movements of 1960s Lat