Book Review: The Life of a Guerrilla Turned Filmmaker
By
Oscar del Valle
A Colombian novelist puts a fictional spin on the extraordinary biography of director Sergio Cabrera.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on the education crisis Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s latest novel, Volver la vista atrás, begins innocuously enough: Sergio Cabrera, a Colombian filmmaker, is being honored in Barcelona with a retrospective of his career. He’s also having a family reunion. Seeing his wife and his two children for the first time in a while, he’s hoping for a second chance. Maybe, he thinks, his life could resume its normal course. Then, an unexpected phone call brings the news that his father has died. Cabrera finds himself undergoing a more...
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