Juan Gabriel Vasquez 
The All Saints » Day Lovers 

An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling




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The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page … Terrific » Khaled Hosseini, Books of the Year




 »One of the most original new writers of Latin American literature » Mario Vargas Llosa



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, Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives.



Achingly sad and beautifully crafted,
The All Saints » Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense collection of stories that explores the depths of relationships, loneliness and cruelty.