Reputations /
Vasquez, Juan Gabriel,
Reputations / Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. - 173 pages ; 22 cm.
Originally published: Las reputaciones / Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2013.
As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colón, he contemplates the start of his professional life, and how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences. As he leaves the theatre a figure from his past, now a young woman, emerges from the crowd outside and forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation and the value of his life's work.
Translated from the Spanish.
Winner, IMPAC award, 2014.
9781408852880
Political fiction.
Cartoonists--Colombia--Fiction.
Cartoonists.
Bogota (Colombia)--Fiction.
Bogot©Øa (Colombia)--Fiction.
Bogotá (Colombia)--Fiction.
Colombia.
Colombia--Bogotá.
Political fiction
Political fiction.
Fiction.
Political fiction.
PQ8180.32.A797 / R4713 2016
863.7
Reputations / Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. - 173 pages ; 22 cm.
Originally published: Las reputaciones / Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2013.
As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colón, he contemplates the start of his professional life, and how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences. As he leaves the theatre a figure from his past, now a young woman, emerges from the crowd outside and forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation and the value of his life's work.
Translated from the Spanish.
Winner, IMPAC award, 2014.
9781408852880
Political fiction.
Cartoonists--Colombia--Fiction.
Cartoonists.
Bogota (Colombia)--Fiction.
Bogot©Øa (Colombia)--Fiction.
Bogotá (Colombia)--Fiction.
Colombia.
Colombia--Bogotá.
Political fiction
Political fiction.
Fiction.
Political fiction.
PQ8180.32.A797 / R4713 2016
863.7
