A review by margaretefg
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

3.0

I read this because it was recommended with At Night We Walk in Circles. And it has some similarities...the potential for violence, maybe. But I didn't like it as much. It's a series of nested, overlapping stories, told by a first person narrator I could not like. I's set in Colombia in the 80s and 90s, and 70s, depending on whose story is being told. The violence of the drug wars is a backdrop for some of it, but there are also two different family stories, the narrator, Antonio, who has a child with a former student of his, and the family of Ricardo Laverde, whose story Antonio discovers gradually, after he is shot while standing near when Laverde is murdered.