Great Translations: Terror in Colombia

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A Review of The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

A story set in Bogota, Colombia. The narrator is a young man who was severely wounded when his companion was murdered in a motorcycle drive-by shooting. The main theme of the book is how the violence of Pablo Escobar’s drug wars impacted not only the narrator’s life but that of a whole…