The Sound of Things Falling
- Author Juan Gabriel Vásquez
- Narrator Adriana Cumming-Teicher
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date 11 June 2026
- Run Time 8 hours and 54 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Winner of the Alfaguara Prize
Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize
'A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war he didn’t choose to fight' The Times
'The story is compelling but through Vásquez’s vivid prose (rendered brilliantly into English by the award-winning translator Anne McLean) it also becomes haunting … A poignant and perturbing tale about the inheritance of fear in a country scrabbling to regain its soul' Financial Times
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio's fascination with his new friend's life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious, unmarked cassette.
Shortly afterwards, he is shot dead on a street corner.
Yammara's investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.
| Author | Juan Gabriel Vásquez |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Adriana Cumming-Teicher |
| Duration | 8 hours and 54 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781037202674 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Genre | Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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