ARGONAUT BOOKS

'The Shape of the Ruins' takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914 and of the charismatic Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the man who might have been Colombia's J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of success in the presidential elections of 1948. Reviews One of the most original new writers of Latin American Literature.Mario Vargas LlosaFor anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel Garcìa Márquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist, then Juan Gabriel Vásquez . . . is a thrilling new di...Read More