First published in Great Britain 2012
This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Originally published in Spain 2011 by Alfaguara
(Santillana Ediciones Generales) as
El ruido de las cosas al caer
Copyright © 2011 by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
English translation copyright © 2012 by Anne McLean
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