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The Informers

By Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Year
2010
ISBN
1594484678, 9781594484674
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
250 kB (255544 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogot? rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who escaped to Colombia during the 1930s, Gabriel's book seemed an innocent attempt to preserve a piece of his country's rapidly vanishing past. But as Gabriel pours over his research looking for clues to his father's anger, he discovers a sinister secret locked in the pages. After his father's death, and with the help of Sara Guterman and his father's girlfriend, Angelina, Gabriel peels back layer after shocking layer of family history-from the streets of 1940s Bogot? to a stranger's doorstep in 1990s Medell?n-to reveal a hidden portrait of their past-dark, complex, and inescapable.

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