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When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke such a painful reaction. A volume that catalogues the life of Sara Guterman, a longtime family friend and Jewish immigrant, since her arrival in Colombia in the 1930s, A Life in Exile seemed a slim, innocent exercise in recording modern history. But as a devastated Gabriel delves, yet again, into Sara's story, searching for clues to his father's anger, he cannot yet see the sinister secret buried in his research that could destroy his father's exalted reputation and redefine his own. After his father's mysterious death in a car accident a few years later, Gabriel sets out anew to navigate half a century of half-truths and hidden meanings. With the help of Sara Guterman and his father's young girlfriend, Angelina, layer after shocking layer of Gabriel's world falls away and a complex portrait of his father emerges from the ruins. From the streets of 1940s Bogotá to a stranger's doorstep in 1990s Medellín, he unravels the web of doubt, betrayal, and guilt at the core of his father's life and he wades into a dark, longsilenced period of Colombian history after World War II. In achingly beautiful prose, Juan Gabriel Vásquez delivers a powerful, riveting exploration of the sins of our fathers and the inescapability of the past. A novel that has already earned Vásquez international accolades, as well as comparaisons to W.G. Sebald, Jorge Luis Borges, and Philip roth, The Informe…

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez

1973

<strong>Juan Gabriel Vásquez Velandia</strong> (Bogotá, 1 de enero de 1973) es un escritor, periodista y traductor colombiano, entre cuyas obras se incluyen siete novelas, dos volúmenes de cuentos y dos libros de ensayos. Su novela más conocida es *El ruido de las cosas al caer,* por la que recibió, entre otras distinciones, el Premio Alfaguara de Novela y el Premio Literario Internacional IMPAC de Dublín. Otros reconocimientos incluyen el Premio Roger Caillois, por el conjunto de su obra, y la condecoración de la Orden de Isabel la Católica. --- <div lang="en"><strong>Juan Gabriel Vásquez Velandia</strong> (Bogotá, January 1, 1973) is a Colombian writer, journalist, and translator who…