Un Pianista de Provincias / Provincial Pianist

Todo pas en los noventa: no solo se acab el petrleo, sino que de los pozos agotados--y al mismo tiempo de las grandes concentraciones de basura en los ocanos--creci la maraa, una forma de vida nueva, capaz de digerir el plstico y txica para los seres humanos. Esta gran pandemia casi destruy la civilizacin; peor: a medida que avanz el siglo xxi, la humanidad aprendi a sobrevivir en un mundo ya no globalizado. Un mundo de provincias por el que Federico Stahl, antiguo virtuoso adolescente del piano, se pasea en una gira musical que lo llevar por pueblos onricos e inquietantes, personajes singulares (como un anciano imitador de Michael Jackson y una estrella enana del porno argentino), carreteras en ruinas dentro de la jungla de maraa y secretos de futuros ms extraos an que acechan en la espesura, entre piratas postapocalpticos, juguetes perdidos y viejas variaciones para piano. Ramiro Sanchiz, una de las voces ms particulares de la narrativa uruguaya contempornea, compone una novela sugerente y seductora, impregnada de melancola futurista.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"Federico Stahl is one of the greatest characters in Latin American literature of this century." --Edmundo Paz Soldn

It all happened in the nineties. Oil not only ran out, but the thicket grew from the depleted oilfields--and, at the same time, from the large amount of garbage in the oceans--a new life form capable of digesting plastic, but toxic to human beings. This great pandemic nearly destroyed civilization. Worse: while it progressed during the twenty-first century, humanity learned to survive in a world no longer globalized. A world of provinces where Federico Stahl, former teenage piano virtuoso, wanders in a concert tour that will take him to oneiric and haunting towns, to singular characters (such as an old Michael Jackson impersonator and an Argentinian dwarf porn star), along ruined highways in the thicket, and to secrets of stranger futures lurking in the wilderness, among post-apocalyptic pirates, lost toys, and old piano variations. Ramiro Sanchiz, one of the most peculiar voices in contemporary Uruguayan narrative, composes a suggestive and seductive novel, permeated with futuristic melancholy.