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Chargement... The Sound of Things Falling (édition 2014)par Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLe bruit des choses qui tombent par Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I read this for a reading challenge and, while it did sound interesting, I ended up enjoying this more than I expected to. The tone of this book is very much ne of despair and things falling apart - very appropriate given its contents. It deals a lot with corruption and drug smuggling and grief. I haven't read the original, but the atmosphere is captured incredibly well in the English translation. I imagine it must be at least as good in the original. The text is beautiful and easy to follow (even if the contents are challenging at times). I very much enjoyed most of it but pats gave me somewhat men writing women vibes (like a character being somewhat fixated on what her breasts look like - I have never met anyone who thinks this way). The characters are incredibly flawed and complex and I loved seeing how they change as the descent into chaos and despair progresses. Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que, en el pasado de su nuevo amigo, hay un secreto, o quizá varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obseión el día en que éste es asesinado.
A gripping novel, absorbing right to the end, “The Sound of Things Falling” concerns a young professor of jurisprudence named Antonio who plays billiards every afternoon in Bogotá to unwind after delivering his lecture. In the billiard hall, he befriends a frail older man, Laverde, who, it is rumored, has only recently been released from prison. Standing out in the street, they’re shot at by two men on a passing motorbike. Laverde is killed and Antonio severely wounded. Appartient à la série éditorialePrix et récompensesDistinctionsListes notables
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota? billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a library. The first time he glances up from his seat in the next booth, Antonio sees tears running down Laverde's cheeks; the next, the ex-pilot has gone. Shortly afterwards, Ricardo is shot dead on a street corner in Bogota? by a guy on the back of a motorbike and Antonio is caught in the hail of bullets. Lucky to survive, and more out of love with life than ever, he starts asking questions until the questions become an obsession that leads him to Laverde's daughter. His troubled investigation leads all the way back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped a whole generation of Colombians in a living nightmare of fear and random death. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I debated whether I'd give this 3 or 4 stars, but I eventually decided on 4 -- I'll get to that later.
The first chapter was brilliant. I was engaged from the start and was fascinated by the meandering venture through the complicated but ultimately regular life of Antonio Yammara.
As it went on, though, it diverged from this and by the 3rd chapter we were starting to explore the lives of Elaine and Ricardo.
Unfortunately, this is where my regard of the novel began to go downhill.
The decision to tell these stories by having Antonio transcribe information that he is learning was, in my opinion, not a good one. It quickly became boring and uninteresting, like I was reading a Wikipedia article, and i became exhausted by Antonio's "then this then that happened" narration.
I also found myself indifferent of his relationship with Maya. It felt unnecessary and random and every time they interacted I wanted to close the book and stop reading.
Furthermore, the final chapter, in particular the final few pages, was jarring and unfortunate to read.
I understand the point of the ending, however it wasn't satisfying in any way, and didn't leave me wanting to analyze the message it was depicting, as I'm sure was intended. I just felt regretful that I hadn't stopped reading at the end of the previous chapter to spare myself from the ending.
Ultimately, though, I was obliged to give it 4 stars.
My enjoyment (or lack thereof) of the novel is not an indictment of the quality. Just because I would have preferred it took a different direction (perhaps one that didn't feel so draining to take) doesn't mean that it was objectively bad and I shouldn't impair Vásquez's rating on a subjective opinion.
If you feel that this book is for you, then go ahead. ( )