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El Desertor. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021 / Desertion
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Una maana de 1899, Martin Pearce, un escritor, viajero y orientalista ingls, exhausto despus de escapar de una banda de ladrones, llega a una pequea ciudad costera de frica Oriental. All, en esa poblacin en ruinas al borde de la vida civilizada, se enamora de Rehana, y comienza una apasionada historia de amor que unir dos culturas y que reverberar a lo largo de tres generaciones y a travs de los continentes, desde el frica colonial hasta el Londres de los aos sesenta. Una novela sobre las consecuencias del pasado, el poder combativo del amor y la fuerza salvadora de la literatura. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence. Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali's sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks, with consequences that will ripple decades into the future, when another clandestine affair bursts into flame, with equally unforeseen and dramatic consequences. In this devastating and ingeniously spun tale, the Nobelist Abdulrazak Gurnah brilliantly dramatizes the personal and political legacies of colonialism.
Una maana de 1899, Martin Pearce, un escritor, viajero y orientalista ingls, exhausto despus de escapar de una banda de ladrones, llega a una pequea ciudad costera de frica Oriental. All, en esa poblacin en ruinas al borde de la vida civilizada, se enamora de Rehana, y comienza una apasionada historia de amor que unir dos culturas y que reverberar a lo largo de tres generaciones y a travs de los continentes, desde el frica colonial hasta el Londres de los aos sesenta. Una novela sobre las consecuencias del pasado, el poder combativo del amor y la fuerza salvadora de la literatura. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence. Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali's sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks, with consequences that will ripple decades into the future, when another clandestine affair bursts into flame, with equally unforeseen and dramatic consequences. In this devastating and ingeniously spun tale, the Nobelist Abdulrazak Gurnah brilliantly dramatizes the personal and political legacies of colonialism.
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