The Polish Boxer - formato ePub

¿Cuándo un hombre se convierte en escritor? Es la pregunta que ha desarrollado Eduardo Halfon en El ángel literario buscando claves y circunstancias en la vida de escritores que han marcado su literatura...

El nuevo libro de Eduardo Halfon, una exploración luminosa y valiente de su universo literario a través del filtro de la paternidad. «Escribí las historias que componen este libro durante los últimos...

Premio Nacional de Literatura de Guatemala Un abuelo polaco cuenta por primera vez la historia secreta del número que lleva tatuado en el antebrazo. Un pianista serbio añora su identidad prohibida....

Un escritor viaja a Italia para honrar la memoria de su abuelo polaco, prisionero en Auschwitz; recorre las costas de Guatemala, desde una playa de arena negra en el Pacífico hasta una playa de arena...

Volver a Polonia. Volver a Łódz´. Volver a donde todo empezó. Buscando una procedencia y una identidad perdidas en las calles de una ciudad que el odio convirtió en gueto, en muerte, en ceniza. Como...

Agotados tras quince horas de vuelo, dos jóvenes guatemaltecos esperan sus maletas en el aeropuerto Ben Gurión de Tel Aviv. Han llegado para asistir a la boda en Jerusalén de su hermana pequeña con un...

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«Usted no escribirá nada sobre esto, me preguntó o me ordenó mi papá, su índice elevado, su tono a medio camino entre súplica y mandamiento. Pensé en responderle que un escritor nunca sabe de qué escribirá,...

La nueva novela de Eduardo Halfon Una fría mañana de enero de 1967, en plena guerra civil de Guatemala, un comerciante judío y libanés es secuestrado en un callejón sin salida de la capital. Nadie ignora...

A través de textos y crónicas que juegan en la delicada línea entre lo completamente personal y aquello que es extrapolable a lo universal, Eduardo Halfon nos habla de la lectura, las bibliotecas y la...

Regresa el mejor Halfon con una extraordinaria novela que bucea en su infancia en la Guatemala compleja y violenta del conflicto armado. A finales de 1984, dos jóvenes hermanos guatemaltecos, exiliados...

Un chapín es un tipo de sandalia española con alzas, y "chapines" es como se conoce a los guatemaltecos en buena parte de América. Un apelativo de doble uso, a veces arrojado con desprecio, otras esgrimido...

Il nonno polacco di Eduardo Halfon arrivò in Guatemala nel 1946 dopo essere sopravvissuto alla Shoah e non tornò mai in Polonia. Aveva sempre proibito alla sua famiglia di andarci. I polacchi, diceva,...

The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a...

' Les histoires qui composent ce livre ont été écrites au cours des cinq dernières années, autrement dit les cinq premières années de la vie de mon fils. Comme toujours, elles ont surgi devant moi tels...

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The Lost Continent, A classic "lost race" story, with all of the required elements: a seductive empress, a straight-arrow hero, battles, escapes, sorcery, and earth-shattering cataclysms! Eminently readable...

Tarsis pierde poder ante los insurgentes. El mandato de los Cuatro Reyes se cuestiona y el Gojemenek clama venganza. Varias ciudades han caído bajo sospechas de rebelión. El miedo vaga por la capital...

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