Juan Gabriel Vásquez

The Shape of the Ruins

By Anne McLean (trans.) - By Juan Gabriel Vásquez - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

While in a Bogota hospital awaiting the premature birth of twin daughters, the narrator Julian Vasquez encounters a friendly doctor, Doctor Benavides, whom ...Read Review

The Secret History of Costaguana

By Anne McLean (trans.) - By Juan Gabriel Vásquez - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

Growing up during France’s disastrous attempt to construct a canal across Panama, José Altamirano’s young life is shaped by the business, ...Read Review

The Secret History of Costaguana

By Juan Gabriel Vásquez - Published 2010

Genres:

Literary

In 1904, Joseph Conrad published Nostromo, set in the fictitious South American republic of Costaguana, claiming that his information came from an equally fictitious ...Read Review