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Juan Gabriel Vsquez has been hailed not only as one of South America's biggest literary stars, but also as one of the most acclaimed authors of his era. With this gorgeously wrought, award-winning book, Vsquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia. In metropolis of Bogot, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once had by legendary Colombian medication kingpin Pablo Escobar. This article transports Antonio back again to when the battle between Escobar's Medelln cartel and authorities forces played out violently in Colombia's streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio observed a friend's murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend's family have been designed by his country's recent violent history. His voyage leads him completely back again to the 1960s and a global on the brink of change: a period before narco-trafficking stuck a whole era in a full time income problem. Vsquez is "one of the most original new voices of Latin American books" corresponding to Nobel Prize victor Mario Vargas Llosa, and The Sound of Things Falling is his most personal, most modern novel to date, a masterpiece that needs his writing - and can take his literary star - even higher.
