Reputations

Vasquez’s prose, translated by Anne MacLean, is spare and effective, with a pleasing precision … A strong writer with a compelling vision * Guardian *
With this slim, clever book about the ebb and flow of history, and its unreliable companion memory, Vásquez shows that Latin America literature has, whatever he has to say about magical realism, lost none of its magic * Sunday Telegraph *
A troubling story of a political cartoonist who finds his convictions tested when a traumatic past event returns to haunt him ... will take you far away into different and secret worlds -- Mariella Fostrup * Observer *
This brief, elusive novel is all the more memorable for its gaps – not least the gap between our memories and the truth (whatever, in its turn, that may be) * Sunday Times *
Vasquez has a searching style, which prods at the past and uncovers memories … Reputations is also a fascinating portrait of an artist … Deeply engaging and well-crafted * Herald *
An affecting, carefully paced work of psychological realism * Times Literary Supplement *
A masterful writer * Nicole Krauss *
A thrilling new discovery * Colm Tóibín *
This is a magnificent novel, short and dense, whose three parts are calibrated to the millimetre * Le Monde *
This is a powerfully written novella and Vásquez’s prose, as always, has a stark elegance that lends it weight * Frank Wynne *