The All Saints' day lovers /
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| Author / Creator: | Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973- author. |
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| Uniform title: | Short stories. Selections. English |
| Imprint: | London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. |
| Description: | 235 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10350518 |
| Summary: | Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium's Ardennes, these stories have been compared to Maupassant, Chekhov, John Cheever and Antonio Tabucchi.A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vasquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives. |
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| Physical Description: | 235 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781408860403 1408860406 |