Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories

Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations,Â a brilliant collection of stories that showcases why he is one of the best writersâ€”in any languageâ€”working today.
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Lovers on All Saints' DayÂ is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel VÃ¡squez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories.

VÃ¡squez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion with these fragmented lives. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder that will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return from an expedition to find wood for their stove, while he lies in another womanâ€™s bed a few miles away, unable to heal the wound in his own marriage. In these stories, there are love affairs, revenge, troubled pasts, and tender moments that reveal a personâ€™s whole history in a few sentences.

Set in Europe (the scene of VÃ¡squezâ€™s own self-imposed exile from Latin America) and never before available in English, this collection evokes a singular mood and a tone, and showcase VÃ¡squezâ€™s hypnotic writing. VÃ¡squez is a humane, deeply insightful writer, and these stories leave one feeling transformed from the experience of reading them, with a greater vision of humanity and society, a greater understanding of relationships and of love.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 1594634270-localization
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-07-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594634277

Country	USA
Brand	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1594634270-localization
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2016-07-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594634277

Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories

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