num_pages: 193
description: From the brilliant mind of the author of The Sound of Things Falling a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws overturning judges' decisions destroying politicians' careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage.At sixty-five after four decades of a brilliant career he's at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he's paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to re-evaluate his life and work questioning his position in the world.In Reputations Juan Gabriel Vsquez examines the weight of the past how a public persona intersects with private histories and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel Vsquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story one that reverberates long after you turn the final page.
language: English
title: Reputations
publisher: Riverhead Books