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Material de Construccin / Construction Materials
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«Una prosa inteligente, precisa, sin concesiones . Kirmen Uribe
En esta novela hay veranos, cigarrillos, piscinas, hospitales, caballos, azulejos, cemento, arena, cartas, plantas, fuego, vacaciones, amores, mentiras, verdades, vergenzas... y tambin alcohol, que lo impregna todo, estropendolo y deformndolo. Porque el padre es alcohlico. Y ella, la hija de un alcohlico. Pero qu ms hay detrs de ese hombre que venda materiales de construccin y fabricaba muebles reciclando pals? A pesar de haber vivido en la misma casa durante muchos aos, padre e hija apenas tienen trato. No se hablan ni se tocan, pero las miradas, los olores y los sonidos les sirven de vnculo. Y el silencio, eso que no se quiere y no se puede decir, es ms un campo de batalla que una fortaleza. En su primera novela, Eider Rodrguez ha recogido los fragmentos de un padre para reconstruir, desde diferentes perspectivas y con un estilo brutal y descarnado, el relato de una familia, de una poca y de un lugar, sacando a la luz los cauces subterrneos por los que circulan el amor y la vida dentro de los estrechos mrgenes del entorno familiar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Listed on Babelia's Best Books of 2023 "An intelligent, precise, uncompromising prose." --Kirmen Uribe
In this novel, we find summers, cigarettes, pools, hospitals, horses, tiles, cement, sand, letters, plants, fire, vacations, affairs, lies, truths, shame... and alcohol, which impregnates everything, ruins it, and deforms it. Because the father is an alcoholic. And she, the daughter of an alcoholic. But what else is there behind this man who sells construction materials and makes furniture recycling pallets? Although they have lived in the same house for many years, father and daughter barely see each other. They don't speak nor touch each other; but the looks, smells, and sounds, act as liaisons between them. And the silence, all one cannot and will not say, is more a battlefield than a fortress. In her first novel, Eider Rodrguez has gathered fragments of a father to rebuild the story of a family, a time and a place from different perspectives with a brutal, discarnate style. The author brings to light the underground flow where love and life travel inside the narrow margins of a familial setting.
«Una prosa inteligente, precisa, sin concesiones . Kirmen Uribe
En esta novela hay veranos, cigarrillos, piscinas, hospitales, caballos, azulejos, cemento, arena, cartas, plantas, fuego, vacaciones, amores, mentiras, verdades, vergenzas... y tambin alcohol, que lo impregna todo, estropendolo y deformndolo. Porque el padre es alcohlico. Y ella, la hija de un alcohlico. Pero qu ms hay detrs de ese hombre que venda materiales de construccin y fabricaba muebles reciclando pals? A pesar de haber vivido en la misma casa durante muchos aos, padre e hija apenas tienen trato. No se hablan ni se tocan, pero las miradas, los olores y los sonidos les sirven de vnculo. Y el silencio, eso que no se quiere y no se puede decir, es ms un campo de batalla que una fortaleza. En su primera novela, Eider Rodrguez ha recogido los fragmentos de un padre para reconstruir, desde diferentes perspectivas y con un estilo brutal y descarnado, el relato de una familia, de una poca y de un lugar, sacando a la luz los cauces subterrneos por los que circulan el amor y la vida dentro de los estrechos mrgenes del entorno familiar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Listed on Babelia's Best Books of 2023 "An intelligent, precise, uncompromising prose." --Kirmen Uribe
In this novel, we find summers, cigarettes, pools, hospitals, horses, tiles, cement, sand, letters, plants, fire, vacations, affairs, lies, truths, shame... and alcohol, which impregnates everything, ruins it, and deforms it. Because the father is an alcoholic. And she, the daughter of an alcoholic. But what else is there behind this man who sells construction materials and makes furniture recycling pallets? Although they have lived in the same house for many years, father and daughter barely see each other. They don't speak nor touch each other; but the looks, smells, and sounds, act as liaisons between them. And the silence, all one cannot and will not say, is more a battlefield than a fortress. In her first novel, Eider Rodrguez has gathered fragments of a father to rebuild the story of a family, a time and a place from different perspectives with a brutal, discarnate style. The author brings to light the underground flow where love and life travel inside the narrow margins of a familial setting.
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$19.95