Name: the good cripple (en Inglés)
SKU: 5463282
Price: 25.61 USD
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Author: Rey Rosa, Rodrigo ; Allen, Esther
ISBN: 9780811215664

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Traducido por

Esther Allen

Editorial

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Tema

psychological

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.2x13.2x1 cm

Peso

0.15 kg.

ISBN

0811215660

ISBN13

9780811215664

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria
Tema narrativo: vida interior
Tema narrativo: política

the good cripple (en Inglés)

Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Autor) · Esther Allen (Traducido por) · New Directions Publishing Corporation · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "the good cripple (en Inglés)"

A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is kidnapped in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. The kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The kidnappers threaten to cut off his son's foot and still hear nothing. They then slice off one of Juan Luis's toes and send it to his father, who still refuses to act. So the next day... The Good Cripple obsessively focused, chilling, allegorical is stunningly explosive. With its enigmatic beginning, however, and its circular relentless structure, the novel is also dense with ideas: can one be whole after mutilation? Can the injured transcend violence? Rodrigo Rey Rosa's style is of a lithe pristine clarity, but beneath that calm surface cruelty, revenge, and diffidence churn darkly away. The Good Cripple is an astonishingly intense book, and as unforgettable as the sight of the place where the foot had been severed, where a circle of red flesh, now a little black along the edges, could be seen, with a concentric circle of white bone that was both milky and glassy...