# The Sound of Things Falling

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- Book: [The Sound of Things Falling](https://www.bookquiver.com/juan-gabriel-vasquez/the-sound-of-things-falling) ([The Sound of Things Falling.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/juan-gabriel-vasquez/the-sound-of-things-falling.md))
- Authors: [Juan Gabriel Vásquez](https://www.bookquiver.com/juan-gabriel-vasquez), [Anne McLean](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-mclean)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- ISBN: 978-14-0883-161-8
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2013-09-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the Alfaguara PrizeWinner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize''A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn’t choose to fight'' The Times''The story is compelling but through Vásquez’s vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting … A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in a country scrabbling to regain its soul'' Financial TimesNo sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio''s fascination with his new friend''s life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette. Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner. Yammara''s investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.