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Reputations

By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Anne McLean
Narrated by: Robert Fass
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Summary

From the brilliant mind of the best-selling, award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling, a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist.

Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges' decisions, destroying politicians' careers with his art. His weapons are pen and ink. Those in power fear him and pay him homage.

At 65, after four decades of a brilliant career, he's at the height of his powers. But this all changes when he's paid an unexpected visit from a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life and work, questioning his position in the world.

In Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vásquez examines the weight of the past, how a public persona intersects with private histories, and the burdens and surprises of memory. In this intimate novel that recalls authors like Coetzee and Ian McEwan, Vásquez plumbs universal experiences to create a masterful story, one that reverberates long after it ends.

©2016 Juan Gabriel Vásquez (P)2016 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"The novel’s brilliance is that we, wanting to know what happened to that sleeping girl, become Mallarino’s accomplices; the novel’s genius is that we, greedy for certainty, become Mallarino’s prey. Like Samanta we are left with something unforgettable.... Masterly." (Yiyun Li, New York Times Book Review)

"Reputations is a profound, exquisitely observed, suspenseful and deeply moving novel. It confirms his status as one of the very finest writers of our time." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"[A]n account of an old cartoonist eyeing his past and the shifting forms of perception, memory and truth. Brilliant." (Financial Times)

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Great narration. Fantastic use of tone to give all the characters a clear voice.

I enjoyed the book. I felt a little disappointed by the final third. The ending felt a little pompous, however that could be a reflection of the lead character rather than the writing.

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