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WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The narrator, also named Juan Gabriel Vásquez, becomes involved with a strange man obsessed with conspiracy theories about the assassination of a popular left-leaning politician, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, in 1948. Set in modern-day Colombia, the novel has a book-within-a-book, a detour from the main story line, to a different murder: the killing in 1914 of General Rafael Uribe.  WHY I’M LOVING IT: References to real historical events, with supposedly authentic documents, appeals to me. The fuzzy illustrations in the paperback edition encourage belief in vague theories supported by old documents and photographs  WHAT’S NEXT:“A Beautiful Blue Death,” by Charles Finch

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