Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Hardcover, 2020)

\""Like Bola\u00F1o, V\u00E1squez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure\"" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine\n\n\""Juan Gabriel V\u00E1squez . . . has succeeded Garc\u00EDa M\u00E1rquez as the literary grandmaster of Colombia\"" ARIEL DORFMAN, New York Review of Books\n\nA morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019).\n\nA renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the life of a fellow guest at a countryside ranch. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a Korean War veteran to confront a shameful secret. And in the title story, an internet search for a book published in 1887 leads to the discovery of the life of a remarkable woman: Aurelia de L\u00E9on, who arrives in Colombia as a child orphan of the Great War, but as a free-spirited adult runs foul of n