The All Saints’ Day Lovers

An extraordinarily rich and powerful collection of seven, thematically linked stories from the acclaimed prize-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling

‘The narrative escalates, the mystery deepens, and the scope of the story widens with each page … Terrific’ Khaled Hosseini, Books of the Year

‘One of the most original new writers of Latin American literature’ Mario Vargas Llosa

A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman’s bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives.

Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints’ Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense collection of stories that explores the depths of relationships, loneliness and cruelty.