Dead Hippo Stirs Memory of Peace Corps Dope Scheme: Books
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The killing of a black hippo serves as the madeleine stirring up memories in Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s quietly eloquent “The Sound of Things Falling.”
As in his previous novels, Vasquez explores the overlaps of personal and national history. “The Informers,” for instance, traced the aftershocks of one man’s betrayal during Colombia’s blacklisting of Germans in the 1940s.