Retrospective >>>> A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

ISBN 10: 1529418623 / ISBN 13: 9781529418620

Published by MacLehose Press, London, 2022

About this Item

A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED BY JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ - Pictures available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Retrospective >>>> A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<
• Publisher: MacLehose Press, London
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529418623
• ISBN 13: 9781529418620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

"Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian

He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to be seen...

In October 2016, the real-life Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is attending a retrospective of his films in Barcelona. It's a difficult time for him: his father, Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war.

In the course of a few turbulent and intense days, Sergio will recall the events that marked the family's life, and especially his father's, his sister Marianella's and his own.

From the Spanish Civil War to the exile of his republican family in Latin America, and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla movements of 1960s Latin America, not only will do we discover a series of adventures extraordinary by any standards, but also a devastating portrait of the forces that for half a century turned the world upside down and created the one we now inhabit.

Retrospective is a revelatory and unforgettable novel.

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

About the Authors

JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ is the author of five previous novels, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, Reputations, The Sound of Things Falling and International Booker-shortlisted The Shape of the Ruins, as well as two acclaimed story collections The All Saints' Day Lovers and Songs for the Flames. He is also the translator into Spanish of works by E. M. Forster, John Hersey and Victor Hugo. His own books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

ANNE MCLEAN has translated works by Hector Abad,
Julio Cortázar and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has
twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize,
for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas and for The
Armies by Evelio Rosero, and in 2012 was awarded
the Spanish Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.