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Efectos Personales / Personal Effects
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $15.95
ISBN13: 9786076410738
Publisher: Hachette Voces
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish
En su cumpleaños, una madre discute con su hija mayor por unos saquitos de té. La hija se va de la casa pegando un portazo. Es la última vez que se ven. Unos dÃas después, la madre se arroja al vacÃo desde el cuarto de un hotel céntrico en Buenos Aires.
Este libro es una exploración literaria y a la vez visceral de ese suicidio. Más que preguntarse por qué, la hija y narradora recrea el antes y el después, las reacciones dentro y fuera de la familia, la trama de las relaciones, la noción del amor, el trauma y las estrategias para lidiar con él.
En un mundo donde las apariencias priman, las convenciones son ampliamente aceptadas y parece haber amplias posibilidades, las mujeres viven y sufren mientras los hombres parecen circular como fantasmas. Es un mundo en el cual lo que se veÃa de un modo se ve de otro a través del prisma de ese pasaje al acto prolijo y planificado, que nadie podÃa imaginar.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
It was a sleepless, raucous night. That day in April, I didn't wake up because I hadn't slept.
On her birthday, a mother argues with her eldest daughter over some tea bags. The daughter storms out of the house, slamming the door behind her. It is the last time they see each other. A few days later, the mother throws herself from a window in a downtown Buenos Aires hotel room.
This book is a literary and visceral exploration of that suicide. Rather than asking why, the daughter and narrator recreates the before and after, the reactions within and outside the family, the web of relationships, the notion of love, the trauma, and the strategies for coping with it.
In a world where appearances reign supreme, conventions are widely accepted, and possibilities seem boundless, women live and suffer while men seem to drift about like ghosts. It is a world in which what was once seen one way is now viewed through the prism of that meticulous, planned act--one that no one could have imagined.
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