A review by rdebner
Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

3.0

I was really excited about this new book of short stories, since I really enjoyed his novel, The Sound of Things Falling. I ended up being less pleased with this collection of stories, which surprised me until I read at the end that these stories were written much earlier (I think he said between 1999-2002) when he was living in Spain and Belgium. These stories are a good marker of where he was as a writer at that time, including reflecting on the region where he was living and spending time, but they are not particularly outstanding short stories. It seems like he got to publish them after the success of the novel. Still, I look forward to seeing what his next (new) work will bring.