The Sound of Things Falling
Juan Gabriel Vásquez • 2011
Devastation Rating
Colombia drugs violence grief
Our Take
Antonio Yammara survives a shooting in Bogotá and begins investigating the man who was killed beside him. Vásquez uses the War on Drugs as the river his characters drown in — a historical force that shapes individual lives with the impersonality of weather. The hippo is not a metaphor but it works as one.
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