Juan Gabriel V squez 
Songs for the Flames [EPUB ebook] 

"Like Bola o, V squez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine"Juan Gabriel V squez . . . has succeeded Garc a M rquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia" ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of Books A 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).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 on, 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.The 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.Translated from the Spanish by Anne Mc Lean