The All Saints' Day lovers
By: Juan Gabriel Vaæzquez ; translated form the Spanish by Anne McLean
Contributors: McLean, Anne, translator
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781408860403
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Ficiton; Murder; Fiction; Adultery
Description: Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium's Ardennes, these stories have been compared to Maupassant, Chekhov, John Cheever and Antonio Tabucchi. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vasquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives.