The Sound of Things Falling
A Bogotá resident named Antonio Yammara reflects on a mid-20th-century uprising between Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and government forces that trapped his community in a nightmarish existence and culminated in a friend's murder.
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
- ISBN-13
- 9781594487484
- Topics
Awards
- International Dublin Literary AwardWonMajor(2014)
Other awarded books from Juan Gabriel Vásquez
- The Shape of the Ruins (2018)0 wins · 4 score
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