Isbn: 9798196300585 - the line: vignettes from both sides: 1 (6 risultati)

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Diez vignettes. Diez momentos de máxima intensidad. Escritos en el idioma en que se vivieron. THE LINE is ten memoir vignettes in Spanish - the language the moments were lived in. No translation, no softening, no English safety net. Rafael Martinez Jr. is a Mexican-born architect with over forty years spanning aerospace, architecture, and construction technology. In these ten scenes, he holds the camera steady long enough for the reader to feel each moment at full intensity. A kidnapping in broad daylight. A friend's terminal diagnosis, kept secret for eleven months. Being banned from the country where his family lives. A breakfast meeting in cartel territory that saves a $25 million project. La Cónsul who signs what shouldn't be signable. La moneda del niño - a coin a child should never have had. Each vignette stands alone. Together they form a mosaic - a life lived on the line between countries, languages, and decades of work that kept crossing borders few people cross in a single lifetime. The Spanish does not translate itself. The reader gets it or they don't. That is the whole point. For first-generation readers, migrant families, architects and builders, and anyone who has had to decide in half a second. 'THE LINE - la línea entre mundos, entre lo dicho y lo callado, entre el momento y el silencio que le sigue.'.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Diez vignettes. Diez momentos de maxima intensidad. Escritos en el idioma en que se vivieron. THE LINE is ten memoir vignettes in Spanish - the language the moments were lived in. No translation, no softening, no English safety net. Rafael Martinez Jr. is a Mexican-born architect with over forty years spanning aerospace, architecture, and construction technology. In these ten scenes, he holds the camera steady long enough for the reader to feel each moment at full intensity. A kidnapping in broad daylight. A friend's terminal diagnosis, kept secret for eleven months. Being banned from the country where his family lives. A breakfast meeting in cartel territory that saves a $25 million project. La Consul who signs what shouldn't be signable. La moneda del nino - a coin a child should never have had. Each vignette stands alone. Together they form a mosaic - a life lived on the line between countries, languages, and decades of work that kept crossing borders few people cross in a single lifetime. The Spanish does not translate itself. The reader gets it or they don't. That is the whole point. For first-generation readers, migrant families, architects and builders, and anyone who has had to decide in half a second. "THE LINE - la linea entre mundos, entre lo dicho y lo callado, entre el momento y el silencio que le sigue." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Diez vignettes. Diez momentos de maxima intensidad. Escritos en el idioma en que se vivieron. THE LINE is ten memoir vignettes in Spanish - the language the moments were lived in. No translation, no softening, no English safety net. Rafael Martinez Jr. is a Mexican-born architect with over forty years spanning aerospace, architecture, and construction technology. In these ten scenes, he holds the camera steady long enough for the reader to feel each moment at full intensity. A kidnapping in broad daylight. A friend's terminal diagnosis, kept secret for eleven months. Being banned from the country where his family lives. A breakfast meeting in cartel territory that saves a $25 million project. La Consul who signs what shouldn't be signable. La moneda del nino - a coin a child should never have had. Each vignette stands alone. Together they form a mosaic - a life lived on the line between countries, languages, and decades of work that kept crossing borders few people cross in a single lifetime. The Spanish does not translate itself. The reader gets it or they don't. That is the whole point. For first-generation readers, migrant families, architects and builders, and anyone who has had to decide in half a second. "THE LINE - la linea entre mundos, entre lo dicho y lo callado, entre el momento y el silencio que le sigue." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…