Reputations / Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Language: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.Description: 173 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781408852880
- Reputaciones. English
- 863.7 23
- PQ8180.32.A797 R4713 2016
- Winner, IMPAC award, 2014.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | VAS | Available | 065846 |
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.
