Songs for the Flames

JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ is the author of five previous novels, The Informers, The Secret History of Costaguana, Reputations, The Sound of Things Falling and International Booker-shortlisted The Shape of the Ruins, as well as two acclaimed story collections The All Saints' Day Lovers and Songs for the Flames. He is also the translator into Spanish of works by E. M. Forster, John Hersey and Victor Hugo.
His own books have been translated into more than twenty languages. ANNE MCLEAN has translated works by Hector Abad, Julio Cortázar and Enrique Vila-Matas. She hastwice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas and for TheArmies by Evelio Rosero, and in 2012 was awardedthe Spanish Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.