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RETROSPECTIVE - JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ KARTONIERT...

One of the great novels to have been written in our languageMario Vargas Llosa 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

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