Songs for the Flames av Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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<p><b>"Like Bola¿o, V¿uez is a master stylist and a </b><b>virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" </b>LEV GROSSMAN, <i>Time Magazine</i><br><br><br><b>"Juan Gabriel V¿uez . . . has succeeded Garc¿</b><b>M¿uez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia" </b>ARIEL DORFMAN, <i>New York Review of Books</i><br><br><br><b>A morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of </b><b><i>The Sound of Things Falling</i></b><b> and </b><b><i>The Shape of the Ruins </i></b><b>(shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019).</b><br><br>A 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 L¿, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the Great War, but as a free-spirited a