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May 19, 2020 | ISBN 9781644731925 Buy
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May 19, 2020 | ISBN 9781644731925
Premio Alfaguara 2020Marina, una mujer casada, con tres hijos, con una vida familiar resuelta, coreógrafa de cierto prestigio, se ve involucrada en un amorío improbable con un hombre impensable. Salvar el fuego retrata dos Méxicos completamente escondidos uno del otro, en los que Marina, que pertenece a la clase social más alta, se vincula con un hombre al extremo de la sociedad. Esta es una novela que retrata las contradicciones de un país y las contradicciones más hondas de la naturaleza humana. Es una novela de amor y es una novela que al final termina por brindar esperanza. «Un autor absolutamente único.».-Guadalupe NettelENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWinning novel of the Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2020 Marina, a married woman and mother of three, with a conventional and organized family life, is a choreographer of a certain prestige, and gets involved in an unlikely affair with an unthinkable man. Saving the Fire portrays two Mexicos completely different from each other, in which Marina, who is part of the highest social class, is linked to a man considered to be at the extreme bottom of society. Saving the Fire is a novel that portrays the contradictions of a country as well as human nature’s deepest contradictions. This is a love story; it is a novel which at the end, offers much hope.
El jurado ha destacado que Salvar el fuego «es una novela polifónica que narra con intensidad y con excepcional dinamismo una historia de violencia en el México contemporáneo donde el amor y la redención aún son posibles. El autor se sirve tanto de una extraordinaria fuerza visual como de la recreación y reinvención del lenguaje coloquial para lograr una obra de inquietante verosimilitud. Los distintos planos narrativos tienen como hilo conductor el cuerpo humano, motivo de celebración y expuesto a numerosos excesos.»ReviewThe jury highlighted that Salvar el fuego / Saving the Fire “is a polyphonic novel that narrates, with intensity and with exceptional vitality and vigor, a history of violence in contemporary Mexico where love and redemption are still possible. The author uses both an extraordinary visual force and the recreation and reinvention of colloquial language to achieve a work of great credibility. The different narrative planes use the human body as their conductive liaison, which offers reasons for celebration and exposed excesses.”
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