The Informers

Name: The Informers
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
ISBN: 9781594483226

Juan Gabriel Vásquez • 2004

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying

Colombia WWII family guilt

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Our Take

Vásquez excavates a wartime collaboration in 1940s Colombia through the son of the man who informed on German immigrants. The guilt is generational and architectural — built into the structures of who stayed silent and who spoke. He is writing about Colombia and Colombia is writing about everywhere.

Appears In

► Espionage — When Loyalty Becomes a Trap ► Dictatorship and Disappearance — Latin American Political Terror ► Latin American Political Fiction — The State That Disappears People

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