THE WIND THAT LAYS WASTE - SELVA ALMADA

Libro

Editorial	CHARCO PRESS
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Nivel	.
Autor	ALMADA SELVA
ISBN	9781916465633
Peso ( kg )	0,163
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2023
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	THE WIND THAT LAYS WASTE The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God - or fate - leads them to the home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and his young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes deeply in God, morality, and his own righteousness, and another whose life experiences have only entrenched his moral relativism and mild apathy; a quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic's assistant, and a restless, sceptical preacher's daughter. As tensions between these characters ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances are tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains. Selva Almada's exquisitely crafted début, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a tactile experience of arid landscapes, heat, squat trees, broken cars, sweat-stained shirts, and ruined lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical, beautiful, and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable. SELVA ALMADA Compared to Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Sara Gallardo and Juan Carlos Onetti, Selva Almada Entre Ríos, Argentina, 1973 is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region. Including her début The Wind that Lays Waste, she has published three novels, a book of short stories, a book of journalistic fiction Dead Girls and a kind of film diary written in the set of Lucrecia Martel's most recent film Zama, based on Antonio di Benedetto's novel . She has been finalist of the Rodolfo Walsh Award and of the Tigre Juan Award both in Spain . Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish. Her most recent novel, No es un río This is not a River has just been published in Argentina 2020 . Brickmakers is her third book to appear in English and is being published in collaboration with Graywolf Press, US. Edad recomendada: Adultos. ALMADA SELVA Selva Almada Entre Ríos, 1973 . Es autora de No es un río 2020 , Los inocentes 2019 , El mono en el remolino. Notas del rodaje de Zama de Lucrecia Martel 2017 , El desapego es una manera de querernos 2015 , Chicas muertas 2014 y El viento que arrasa 2012 , entre otros libros. Su obra está traducida a una decena de lenguas. En 2019 recibió el First Book Award del Festival Internacional del Libro de Edimburgo por la traducción al inglés de su novela El viento que arrasa The Wind That Lays Waste . No es un río fue considerado uno de los mejores libros de 2020 por los diarios La Nación y Clarín y recibió la Mención especial del Premio Sara Gallardo de Novela. Publicado en Brasil, Francia, Estados Unidos, Italia, Reino Unido, Alemania y Holanda, en 2024 ha sido seleccionado como finalista del International Booker Prize.
Cantidad de páginas	116
Fecha Ingreso	01-01-0001