Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean [in Booklist]
11 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Colombian, Fiction, Short Stories, South American, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW Prodigious author, journalist, and translator Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Reputations, 2016), one of South America’s most important writers, is once again deftly translated by award-winning Canadian Anne McLean. Four stories provokingly manipulate time. In “Woman on the Riverbank,” a war photographer briefly encounters a politician’s assistant...