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Los Amigos de Mi Vida / My Friends
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ISBN10: 8419456373
ISBN13: 9788419456373
Publisher: Salamandra
Published: Feb 23 2027
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.81
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9788419456373
Publisher: Salamandra
Published: Feb 23 2027
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.81
Language: Spanish
FINALISTA DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - SELECCIONADA PARA LA LISTA LARGA DEL PREMIO BOOKER - Una novela «magistral (The New York Times, Editors' Choice) y «cautivadora (The Atlantic) sobre la amistad, la familia y las inimaginables realidades del exilio, del autor de El regreso, ganador del Premio Pulitzer.
«Una profunda celebración del poder de la amistad para sostenernos, de las formas en que nos moldeamos a partir de las huellas que dejan esas pocas personas que el destino pone en nuestro camino . --The Washington Post
UNO DE LOS DIEZ MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE WASHINGTON POST Y PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE NEW YORKER, THE BOSTON GLOBE, TIME, NPR Y BookPage
GANADORA DEL ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION - GANADORA DEL NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - SELECCIONADA PARA LA LISTA LARGA DE LA ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
Una noche, cuando Khaled es todavía un niño que crece en Bengasi, escucha por la radio un extraño cuento sobre un hombre devorado vivo por un gato y tiene la sensación de que su vida ha cambiado para siempre. Obsesionado con el poder de aquellas palabras --y con su enigmático autor, Hosam Zowa--, Khaled acaba emprendiendo un viaje que lo llevará lejos de casa para cultivar una vida intelectual en la Universidad de Edimburgo. Allí, inmerso de pronto en una sociedad abierta, a años luz del mundo que conocía en Libia, Khaled comienza a cambiar. Asiste en Londres a una manifestación contra el régimen de Gadafi, pero presencia cómo esta desemboca en una tragedia. En cuestión de segundos, Khaled resulta herido y queda aferrándose a la vida, sin posibilidad de abandonar Gran Bretaña y mucho menos de regresar a su país natal. Incluso contarles a sus padres lo que ha hecho, a través de líneas telefónicas intervenidas, los pondría en peligro. Cuando un encuentro fortuito en un hotel pone a Khaled frente a frente con Hosam Zowa, el autor de aquel cuento que marcó su destino, nace la amistad más profunda de su vida. Una amistad que no solo lo sostiene, sino que, con el estallido de la Primavera Árabe, termina obligándolo a enfrentarse a dolorosas tensiones entre la revolución y la seguridad, la familia y el exilio, y a descubrir cómo definir su propia identidad frente a las personas más cercanas a él. Una conmovedora reflexión sobre la amistad y la familia, y sobre cómo el paso del tiempo pone a prueba --y desgasta-- esos vínculos, Los amigos de mi vida es una obra literaria de una belleza desgarradora, escrita por un autor en la plenitud de su talento. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A masterly (The New York Times, Editors' Choice), riveting (The Atlantic) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return A profound celebration of the sustaining power of friendship, of the ways we mold ourselves against the indentations of those few people whom fate presses against us.--The Washington Post
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHER WEEKLY'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Time, NPR, BookPage
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION - WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words--and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa--Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger. When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him. A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests--and frays--those bonds, My Friends is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers.
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