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The Sound of Things Falling

Riverhead. 2013. 288p. tr. from Spanish by Anne McLean. ISBN 9781594487484. $27.95; pap. ISBN 9781594632747. $16. COLOMBIA
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OrangeReviewStarDrug cartels in the 1990s form the backdrop of this 2011 Alfaguara Prize winner about a law professor who probes the truth behind the drive-by murder of a retired drug-trafficking pilot, the plane crash that killed the pilot's estranged wife, and the familial recollections of their apiarist daughter.
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