In English
International Booker 2019 · Shortlist
The Shape of the Ruins
La forma de las ruinas
Juan Gabriel Vásquez · 42 when first published
Novel · Politics, Historical
Translated by Anne McLean
AI-generated summary:In 2014 a man is arrested in Bogotá for trying to steal the suit of the murdered politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán from a museum, and a chance meeting draws the narrator, a writer, into his web of conspiracies.