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The shape of the ruins : a novel
- Title
- The shape of the ruins : a novel / Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
- Author
- Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
- ©2015
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McLean, Anne, 1962-
- Description
- 509 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. A man is arrested at a museum in Colombia for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of an assassin. The incident barely makes the news though the political murder this assassin committed years before set off riots that ushered in a decade of bloody civil war in the country -- "La Violencia" -- a time that still echos throughout Colombia. Soon this theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular obsessions with conspiracy theories and the truth; and it haunts the people who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings. This novel explores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the hidden characters who have unknowingly shaped its modern landscape. A compulsive read, beautiful and profound and eerily relevant to our times, The Shape of the Ruins is the tour-de-force story by a master at uncovering the incisive wounds of our political memory"--
- "The sweeping novel of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions by Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez"--
- Uniform Title
- Forma de las ruinas. English
- Alternative Title
- Forma de las ruinas.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Political fiction.
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Language (note)
- In English, translated from the Spanish.
- Contents
- The man who spoke of inauspicious dates -- Relics of the illustrious dead -- A wounded animal -- Why swell'st thou then? -- The major wound -- The investigation -- Who are they? -- The trial -- The shape of the ruins.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9464
- ISBN
- 9780735211148
- 0735211140
- LCCN
- 2018008350
- OCLC
- 1020312394
- Author
- Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973- author.
- Title
- The shape of the ruins : a novel / Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
- Publisher
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- In English, translated from the Spanish.
- Added Author
- McLean, Anne, 1962- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9464