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Alberto, Eliseo

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ISBN 10: 0375405402 ISBN 13: 9780375405402

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Haunted by violent visions, a Cuban veteran of the Angolan war, the sole survivor of an ambush that killed the rest of his platoon, finds himself unable to take his own life and sets out to find someone who will pull the trigger for him. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"A spectacular read... Storytelling magic."
--The Miami Herald

"Magic realism is in flower, but beneath its extravagant exaggerations lie serious observations about human nature."
--The New York Times Book Review

"[B]rilliant... a modern tragedy where madness goes hand in hand with the absurd."
--El Pais

From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Eliseo Alberto, winner of the first International Alfaguara Prize in Fiction (1998), was born in Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Havana, and was editor in chief of the literary gazette El Caiman Barbudo and assistant director of the magazine Cine Cubano. He has published three books of poems, Importará el trueno, Las cosas que yo amo, and Un instante en cada cosa, and is the author of La fogata roja, a book for young adults that won the Cuban National Critics Prize; a novel, La eternidad por fin comienza un lunes; and a memoir, Informe contra mí mismo, winner of the Gabino Palma Prize in Spain. He has written screenplays for film and television, and has taught at the International Film School in San Antonio

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375405402
• ISBN 13: 9780375405402
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 286