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The Sky Over Lima
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

The Sky Over Lima

WINNER OF THE 2014 OJO CRÍTICO LITERARY PRIZE AN OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE FESTIVAL DU PREMIER ROMAN IN CHAMBÉRY A vibrant tale of literary seduction, set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Peru Peru, 1904. José Gálvez and Carlos Rodríguez are poets. Or, at least, they’d like to be. Sons of Lima’s elite in the early twentieth century, they scribble bad verses and read all the greats, especially their idol Juan Ramón Jímenez, the Spanish Maestro. Desperate for Jímenez’s latest work, unavailable in Lima, they decide to ask him for a copy. Convinced Jímenez won’t send two dilettantes his book, but he might favour a beautiful young woman, they write to him as the lovely...

Nem mesmo os mortos
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 382

Nem mesmo os mortos

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-10-29
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  • Publisher: DBA Editora

Vice-reinado da Nova Espanha, século XVI. Juan de Toñanes, velho garimpeiro que ajudou a Coroa na conquista do México e agora proprietário de uma taverna decadente, recebe a missão de capturar um indígena renegado também chamado Juan e conhecido como Pai. Com "certa experiência com a espada e uma disposição mediana para a aventura", o ex-soldado inglório aceita a empreitada e parte em busca de seu homônimo. Duas semanas é o tempo fixado para concluir a missão, mas o encargo vai além: dura meses, anos, décadas, séculos, enquanto a figura profética do Pai assume diferentes contornos e encarnações de poder. Nem mesmo os mortos é uma viagem trans-histórica alucinada, poética e filosófica em que os personagens, o tempo e o progresso se refletem e se debatem em um jogo de espelhos enevoado. Ao norte, sempre ao norte, Juan chega a dias recentes atravessando o muro de Trump, "uma cicatriz que sutura o deserto em duas desolações iguais".

Kanada
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 190

Kanada

Ein Mann kehrt zurück in seine zerstörte Heimatstadt. Unfähig an die verlorene Vergangenheit vor dem Krieg anzuschließen, hofft er, auch sein Haus möge in Trümmern liegen. Doch es steht noch, und seine Wohnung darin ist alles, was ihm geblieben ist. Familie, Erinnerung, Hoffnung – alles hat sich aufgelöst. Er schließt sich ein in sein Büro, verlässt es bald gar nicht mehr – versorgt allein von seinem Nachbarn und dessen Frau, von denen kaum zu sagen ist, ob sie seine Retter oder seine Wärter sind, zieht sich immer mehr in sich zurück, in ein zeit- und raumloses Vakuum, in dem die Außenwelt kaum mehr als ein Rauschen ist. Und doch sind ihre Bedrohungen real: der Hunger, die S...

The Sky Over Lima
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

The Sky Over Lima

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-17
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  • Publisher: HMH

Based on a historic literary hoax, this “charming” novel is “a love letter to the creative process” from one of Spain’s most original authors (Kirkus Reviews). José Gálvez and Carlos Rodríguez are poets. Or, at least, they’d like to be. Sons of Lima’s elite in the early twentieth century, they scribble poorly constructed verses and read the greats: Rilke, Rimbaud, and, above all others, Juan Ramón Jímenez, the Spanish Maestro. Desperate for Jímenez’s latest work, unavailable in Lima, they decide to ask him for a copy. Certain Jímenez would never send his book to a couple of dilettantes, they concoct a plan à la Cyrano de Bergerac. They write to him posing as the lovel...

El cielo de Lima
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 238

El cielo de Lima

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-06
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  • Publisher: Seix Barral

La fascinante historia de cómo dos jóvenes poetas tejieron uno de los mayores engaños literarios del siglo XX En 1904, dos jóvenes peruanos que trataban de conseguir libros firmados por su idolatrado Juan Ramón Jiménez decidieron escribirle fingiendo ser una muchacha llamada Georgina Hübner. Nacida del papel como una broma literaria, la joven imaginaria llegó a convertirse en una obsesión para el escritor y ambos protagonizaron un romance epistolar cuyo final trágico el propio Juan Ramón recogería en uno de sus poemarios. Basándose en esta anécdota histórica, El cielo de Lima sigue los pasos de estos dos diletantes en su construcción de la musa perfecta, de las buhardillas de...

Not Even the Dead
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Not Even the Dead

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-03-14
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A claim of justice for the losers of history with echoes of authors as different as Joseph Conrad, Alejo Carpentier, and David Mitchell. The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is one of so many soldiers without glory who roam like beggars for the land they helped subdue. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who's called the Father and who preaches a dangerous heresy, he understands that this may be his last chance to carve himself the future he's always dreamed of. But as he goes deep into the unexplored lands of the north following the Father's trace, he will discover the footprints of a man who seems not only a man, but a prophet destined to trans...

Lo demás es aire
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 541

Lo demás es aire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-05-04
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  • Publisher: Seix Barral

La biografía sentimental de todo un país a través de la historia de un pequeño pueblo. «Una de las voces más relevantes de la actual narrativa en español.» Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia «Gómez Bárcena reclama para la literatura un punto intermedio entre la imaginación y la hipótesis, la cultura y la vida. Un escritor que es nuevo, y a la vez, como los de siempre, y que ocupa un lugar privilegiado en el panorama narrativo español.» Marta Sanz «He aquí un autor que aporta nuevas y desusadas perspectivas al panorama literario [...]. Bienvenido sea.» José María Merino «Uno de los mejores novelistas de nuestro tiempo.» Fernando Marías Toñanes es la pequeña aldea de Cantabria ...

Last Words on Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Last Words on Earth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-09-21
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An exploration of the excruciating travails and sudden, immeasurable success of a Roberto Bolaño-esque writer.

Mothers Don't
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Mothers Don't

A writer about to give birth investigates the story behind a mother she knows who has just killed her own twins.

Der Himmel von Lima
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 251

Der Himmel von Lima

Erst ist es nur ein Scherz, ein Streich, eine Schnapsidee. Lima 1904. José Gálvez und Carlos Rodríguez, zwei junge Möchtegern-Schriftsteller aus der peruanischen Oberschicht, wollen an ein signiertes Exemplar des neuesten Buches ihres Idols, des berühmten spanischen Dichters Juan Ramón Jiménez kommen und erfinden kurzerhand die junge und schöne Georgina Hübner, in deren Namen sie dem späteren Literatur-Nobelpreisträger schreiben – und tatsächlich: Der Meister, ganz verzaubert vom rätselhaften Mädchen aus Lima, antwortet. Immer mehr Briefe kreuzen den Atlantik und Juan Ramón verliebt sich. Eine Leidenschaft, die kein glückliches Ende finden kann. Juan Gómez Bárcena erzähl...