# Songs for the Flames

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/juan-gabriel-vasquez/songs-for-the-flames

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- Authors: [Juan Gabriel Vásquez](https://www.bookquiver.com/juan-gabriel-vasquez)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-09-03

## Description

" Like Bolaño, Vásquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine " Juan Gabriel Vásquez . . . has succeeded García Márquez 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 Léon, 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 McLean

## Editions

### Songs for the Flames

- Publisher: riverhead_books
- ISBN: 978-05-9319-014-2
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2022-08-02
- Language: en_US

### Songs for the Flames

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- ISBN: 978-15-2940-547-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2021-09-16
- Language: en_GB

### Songs for the Flames

- Publisher: maclehose_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2940-546-0
- Published: 2020-09-03
- Language: en_GB