{"product_id":"shape-of-the-ruins","title":"Shape Of The Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like Don DeLillo''s JFK-themed \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, the novel is an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlasgow Herald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterful writer\" Nicole Krauss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vasquez has succeeded García Márquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia\" Ariel Dorfman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A dazzlingly choreographed network of echoes and mirrorings\" T.L.S.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired García Márquez''s General Buendia in \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude,\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Separated by more than 30 years, the two murders at first appear unconnected, but as the novel progresses Vásquez reveals how between them they contain the seeds of the violence that has bedevilled Colombia ever since. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Shape of the Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e is Vásquez''s most ambitious, challenging and rewarding novel to date. His previous novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Things Falling,\u003c\/i\u003e won Spain''s Alfaguara Prize, Italy''s Von Rezzori Prize and the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa 2018 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinalist for the Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa 2016 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinalist for the Premio Bottari Lattes Grinzane 2017 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinalist for the Prix Fémina \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinalist for the Prix Médicis \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Anne McLean\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318452494718,"sku":"NW9780857056610","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780857056610.jpg?v=1778695918","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/shape-of-the-ruins","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}