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In 1954 television comes to Colombia and Fausto begins an apprenticeship under revered Japanese actor and director Seki Sano. They marry in 1947, just as Colombia descends into “la Violencia”, a period of bipartisan civil unrest that claimed up to 300,000 lives and became the flame from which the Cabrera family’s activism was kindled. We follow the family as they flee, first to France and then to the Dominican Republic, where Fausto, against all odds, becomes an actor, briefly meets the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, and, in 1945, with Hitler and Mussolini dead but Franco very much alive, arrives in Bogotá where he falls in love with a high-born young woman called Luz Elena. Fittingly, Vásquez opens the novel (transparently translated by Anne McLean) in Barcelona, during the Spanish civil war, where Cabrera’s father, Fausto, is sheltering from bombs.
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“The act of fiction has been to extract the figure of this novel from the huge mountain of Sergio Cabrera’s experience and that of his family, as he revealed them to me over seven years of encounters and more than 30 hours of recorded conversations,” explains Vásquez in an author’s note, adding that he also spoke at length to Cabrera’s sister, Marianella, and had access to diaries, family friends and other source material from the Cabrera family’s archive.Īnd what a life story it is.