«Hay libros que, al modo del automvil que se salta un semforo, se cruzan violentamente en tu existencia. Este es de los que se saltan el semforo --explica Mills--. Me haban encargado un reportaje sobre m mismo, de forma que comenc a seguirme. Un da me dije: "Mi padre tena un taller de aparatos de electromedicina". Entonces se me apareci el taller, conmigo y con mi padre dentro. l estaba probando un bistur elctrico sobre un filete. De sbito, me dijo: "Fjate, Juanjo, cauteriza la herida en el momento mismo de producirla". Comprend que la escritura, como el bistur, cicatrizaba las heridas en el instante de abrirlas e intu por qu era escritor. Acababa de ser arrollado por una novela . Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa y del Premio Planeta, alabada por la crtica y los lectores, El mundo narra con maestra el trnsito a la vida adulta de un adolescente, pero tambin el descubrimiento de una manera original e imaginativa de observar y entender la realidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "What would have happened if on that distant childhood day I hadn't gone back to the basement through the same hole I had crawled out from? Maybe life would have forever kept that same glow, or that fever." "There are books that, same as a car running a red light, violently cross your path. This is one of those books that run a red light," explains Mills. "I had been assigned to write a story about myself, so I began following me. One day I said to myself, 'My father had a store of electro-medical equipment.' And then the shop appeared before me, with me and my father inside. He was testing an electric scalpel on a steak. Suddenly, he said, 'Look, Juanjo, it cauterizes the wound as it opens it.' I understood that writing, just like that scalpel, cauterizes wounds while it opens them, and I knew why I was a writer. I had just been run over by a novel." Winner of both the National Narrative Award and the Premio Planeta, praised by critics and readers alike, The World masterfully describes the transition of a teenage boy to adult life, but also the discovery of an original and imaginative way to observe and understand reality.
«Hay libros que, al modo del automvil que se salta un semforo, se cruzan violentamente en tu existencia. Este es de los que se saltan el semforo --explica Mills--. Me haban encargado un reportaje sobre m mismo, de forma que comenc a seguirme. Un da me dije: "Mi padre tena un taller de aparatos de electromedicina". Entonces se me apareci el taller, conmigo y con mi padre dentro. l estaba probando un bistur elctrico sobre un filete. De sbito, me dijo: "Fjate, Juanjo, cauteriza la herida en el momento mismo de producirla". Comprend que la escritura, como el bistur, cicatrizaba las heridas en el instante de abrirlas e intu por qu era escritor. Acababa de ser arrollado por una novela . Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa y del Premio Planeta, alabada por la crtica y los lectores, El mundo narra con maestra el trnsito a la vida adulta de un adolescente, pero tambin el descubrimiento de una manera original e imaginativa de observar y entender la realidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "What would have happened if on that distant childhood day I hadn't gone back to the basement through the same hole I had crawled out from? Maybe life would have forever kept that same glow, or that fever." "There are books that, same as a car running a red light, violently cross your path. This is one of those books that run a red light," explains Mills. "I had been assigned to write a story about myself, so I began following me. One day I said to myself, 'My father had a store of electro-medical equipment.' And then the shop appeared before me, with me and my father inside. He was testing an electric scalpel on a steak. Suddenly, he said, 'Look, Juanjo, it cauterizes the wound as it opens it.' I understood that writing, just like that scalpel, cauterizes wounds while it opens them, and I knew why I was a writer. I had just been run over by a novel." Winner of both the National Narrative Award and the Premio Planeta, praised by critics and readers alike, The World masterfully describes the transition of a teenage boy to adult life, but also the discovery of an original and imaginative way to observe and understand reality.
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