“Las Reputaciones” by Juan Gabriel Vásquez “He is the most influential political cartoonist in the country, «a man capable of causing the repeal of a law, upsetting the decision of a magistrate, overthrowing a mayor or seriously threatening the stability of a ministry, and that with the only weapons of paper and Chinese ink». The
“The noise of things falling” by Juan Gabriel Vásquez “The noise of things falling begins with the exotic escape and subsequent hunt of a hippopotamus, the last vestige of the impossible zoo with which Pablo Escobar exhibited his power. This is the spark that starts the memory mechanisms of
“There are few worlds in English-language fiction as vast, rich and diverse as Doctorow's. This year his first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, turns half a century old; in this time Doctorow has published thirteen fiction books, a play and two compilations of essays, and the result can be very