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The Informers (Hardcover)

By: Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Author) and Anne McLean (Translator)

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"Two years ago Mr. Vásquez was included on a list of the most 'important' Latin American writers under 40, nominated by more than 2,000 authors, literary agents, librarians, editors and critics. THE INFORMERS alone justifies their choice, given its challenging subject and psychological depth, but clearly there are bigger and even more intriguing things on the way."

"That we have had to wait so long to read [Vasquez] here is a mystery to me, and a disappointment. But THE INFORMERS not merely makes up for lost time, it raises the hope that his earlier books will in time find their way to this country....It is the best work of literary fiction to come my way since 2005...and into the bargain it is immensely entertaining, with twists and turns of plot that yield great satisfaction."

"[A] crushing and beautifully tricky novel....[I]ts intelligence and unsparing tone will hold readers rapt through its many twists and turns." (starred review)

"THE INFORMERS is an impressive examination of how history and memory incite a narcissistic urge to correct the past....Vasquez...[has] a fresh, exciting voice and [this is] an elegantly written debut."

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A virtuosic novel about family, history, memory, and betrayal from the brightest new Latin American literary talent working today.
When Gabriel Santoroas biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous BogotA rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke such a painful reaction. A volume that catalogues the life of Sara Guterman, a longtime family friend and Jewish immigrant, since her arrival in Colombia in the 1930s, "A Life in Exile" seemed a slim, innocent exercise in recording modern history. But as a devastated Gabriel delves, yet again, into Saraas story, searching for clues to his fatheras anger, he cannot yet see the sinister secret buried in his research that could destroy his fatheras exalted reputation and redefine his own.
After his fatheras mysterious death in a car accident a few years later, Gabriel sets out anew to navigate half a century of half-truths and hidden meanings. With the help of Sara Guterman and his fatheras young girlfriend, Angelina, layer after shocking layer of Gabrielas world falls away and a complex portrait of his father emerges from the ruins. From the streets of 1940s BogotA to a strangeras doorstep in 1990s MedellA-n, he unravels the web of doubt, betrayal, and guilt at the core of his fatheras life and he wades into a dark, longsilenced period of Colombian history after World War II.
With a taut, riveting narrative and achingly beautiful prose, Juan Gabriel VAsquez delivers an expansive, powerful exploration of the sins of our fathers, of waras devastating psychological costs, and of the inescapability of the past. A novel that has earned VAsquez comparisonsto Sebald, Borges, Roth, and MArquez, "The Informers" heralds the arrival of a major literary talent.

When a biography he penned about a family friend is scathingly and embarrassingly reviewed by the writer's own father, Gabriel Santoro delves into his subject's past once again to discern the source of his father's wrath, which is finally brought to light years later after his father's suspicious death.

When a biography he penned about a family friend is scathingly and embarrassingly reviewed by the writer's own father, Gabriel Santoro delves into his subject's past once again to discern the source of his father's wrath, which is finally brought to light years later after his father's suspicious death.

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A Colombian biographer, Gabriel Santoro, publishes a biography ("A Life in Exile") about his family's Jewish friend who fled Nazi Germany to South America. To his shock, the book receives a scathing and condemnatory review from his own father. Switching between the violence of Colombia in the 1980s and the murky politics of the 1940s, THE INFORMERS is a fascinating mystery of a country's troubled history: the post-war period when people's lives were ruined by accusations, sometimes false, that they were Nazi sympathizers. Author Juan Gabriel Vasquez breaks from the magical-realist literary tradition with this taut, factual, and complex inquiry into social morality, the power of language, and buried family secrets.

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