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Reputations
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Saramago never topped Blindness. Coetzee never bested Disgrace. So it’s probably unfair to expect every Vásquez book to be as brilliant as The Sound of Things Falling. But even minor works by the great Colombian novelist are a treat. A political cartoonist besotted with his own power discovers he may have made a terrible mistake & ruined lives with his pen & ink. A slim book that’s heavy on ideas—fact & fiction, memory & truth, who gets to say what really happened. Lotta questions. Don’t expect answers.