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The Sound of Things Falling

✍ Scribed by Vasquez, Juan Gabriel

Book ID: 107917247
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 157 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

The dark, brilliant new novel by the author of The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana.No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogotá billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a library. The first time he glances up from his seat in the next booth, Antonio sees tears running down Laverde's cheeks; the next, the ex-pilot has gone. Shortly afterwards, Ricardo is shot dead on a street corner in Bogotá by a guy on the back of a motorbike and Antonio is caught in the hail of bullets. Lucky to survive, and more out of love with life than ever, he starts asking questions until the... ϡ쯦랠

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