The All Saints' Day lovers by Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973- author, McLean, Anne, translator instant download

The All Saints' Day lovers by Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973- author, McLean, Anne, translator instant download

235 pages ; 25 cm, Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium's Ardennes, these stories have been compared to Maupassant, Chekhov, John Cheever and Antonio Tabucchi. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vasquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives, Hiding places -- The All Saint's Day lovers -- The lodger -- The return -- At the Café de la Republique -- The solitude of the magician -- Life of Grimsey Island