The Informers
Translated from the Spanish by Anne Mclean
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2012
352 pages
978-1-4088-3453-4 (ISBN)
Description
A brilliant debut from 'one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' (Mario Vargas Llosa)
'For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez, The Informers is a thrilling new discovery' Colm Toibin, Guardian
'One of this year's outstanding books' Financial Times
When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper.
Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the guilt and complicity at the heart of Colombian society, as one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance half a century later.
'For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez, The Informers is a thrilling new discovery' Colm Toibin, Guardian
'One of this year's outstanding books' Financial Times
When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper.
Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the guilt and complicity at the heart of Colombian society, as one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance half a century later.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3453-4 (9781408834534)
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Persons
Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne between 1996 and 1998, and now lives in Barcelona. His stories have appeared in anthologies in Germany, France, Spain, and Colombia, and he has translated works by E.M. Forster and Victor Hugo, amongst others, into Spanish. His essays, reviews and reportage have appeared in various magazines and literary supplements. He was recently nominated as one of the Bogota 39, South America's most promising writers of the new generation. The Informers is his first novel to be translated into English.
Anne McLean has translated Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs and other writings by writers including Carmen Martín Gaite, Orlando Gonzalez, Julio Cortázar and Tomás Eloy Martínez. Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas was a huge international success, selling over 1 million copies worldwide, being translated into more than twenty languages and winning for Cercas and McLean the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction in the UK in 2004.
Anne McLean has translated Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs and other writings by writers including Carmen Martín Gaite, Orlando Gonzalez, Julio Cortázar and Tomás Eloy Martínez. Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas was a huge international success, selling over 1 million copies worldwide, being translated into more than twenty languages and winning for Cercas and McLean the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction in the UK in 2004.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I The Inadequate Life
- II The Second Life
- III The Life According to Sara Guterman
- IV The Inherited Life
- V Postscript, 1995
- Historical Afterword
- Notes
- A Note on the Translator
- By the Same Author
- A Note on the Author
- Also Available by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
- eCopyright
