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The All Saints' Day Lovers
The All Saints' Day Lovers | Juan Gabriel Vásquez
8 posts | 8 read | 5 to read
Achingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints' Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium's Ardennes, these stories have been compared to Maupassant, Chekhov, John Cheever and Antonio Tabucchi. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vasquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives.
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gossamerchild
Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories | Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Randomly searching for books about #allsaintsday and ran across this. And now I'm intrigued.

#HumbleHarvest @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs It sounds captivating! 6mo
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Kshakal
Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories | Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Eggs Beautiful ðŸ™ðŸ»ðŸ’•ðŸ™ðŸ» 6mo
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IndoorDame
The All Saints' Day Lovers | Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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This doesn‘t have great Litsy reviews but the description sounds compelling

#NovemberNarrative #SaintsDay @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Agreed it does sound intriguing 1y
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bookwrm526
Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories | Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Mehso-so

Short story collections are always a mixed bag, but this one had more misses than hits for me!

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alisonrose
Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories | Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Mehso-so

I don't read a lot of short story collections and this one reminded me why. The stories were fine, but there just didn't seem like much of a point to most of them. Sometimes I could clearly see the "message" of the story, but it still didn't feel very substantive. The writing was good and the scene setting was strong, but some of the characters were a bit flat. So, not great but not exactly bad. My usual issue with short stories! 3/5 â­ï¸

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alisonrose
Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories | Juan Gabriel Vásquez

I wanted, without knowing why, to preserve the predawn silence, the gentle repose of the mountain, the pleasure of not seeing anyone in the sleeping streets: all that filled me with the sensation of testing out a new pair of eyes.

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alisonrose
Lovers on All Saints' Day: Stories | Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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Things are still garbage and totally uncertain so thank God there are books. #nowreading