The Informers
By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Contributors: McLean, Anne, 1962-
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Los informantes
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780747596516
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Fiction; History
Work titles: Informantes
Description: When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the guilt and complicity at the heart of Colombian society, as one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance half a century on.
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