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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9781594487484
- Genre
- Crime & ThrillerFiction
- Topics
- Drug cartel violenceMemory and traumaColombian history
Awards
- International Dublin Literary AwardWonMajor(2014)
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