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Ella, Maldita Alma / She, Damned Soul
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $22.95
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Jan 19 2027
Pages: 192
Language: Spanish
Desde la antigüedad, la búsqueda más intensa del ser humano es la del lugar donde habita el alma. He aquà una respuesta actual, sencilla, irónica y sorprendente a ese gran enigma histórico. El resultado de un duro viaje de ida y vuelta a las entrañas. Cada relato de este libro está protagonizado por las diferentes formas que puede adquirir el alma: ya sea una barra de pan, un loro, un enjambre de abejas o una guitarra eléctrica. Aquà se encuentran todas las claves de la narrativa de Rivas: todas son historias que le ocurren a gente corriente, habitantes de la Galicia rural y humilde, en todas ellas hay melancolÃa, poesÃa e indagación en las capas profundas de la realidad --es decir, el alma-- que no siempre podemos percibir por nosotros mismos.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
One of the great short story collections, by the 2024 National Prize for Spanish Literature winner, returns to bookstores with a previously unpublished story.
Since ancient times, humanity's most intense quest has been to find the place where the soul dwells. Here is a contemporary, simple, ironic, and surprising answer to that great historical enigma. The result of a difficult journey to the depths and back. Each story in this book features the different forms that the soul can take: whether it be a loaf of bread, a parrot, a swarm of bees, or an electric guitar. Here we find all the keys to Rivas' narrative: these are all stories that happen to ordinary people, inhabitants of rural and humble Galicia, and in all of them there is melancholy, poetry, and an exploration of the deeper layers of reality--that is, the soul--that we cannot always perceive for ourselves.
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