Reina De America (Biblioteca Breve) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Amat, Nuria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8432211206 ISBN 13: 9788432211201

Publisher: Planeta Pub Corp, 2002

Synopsis

Rat, a young woman who has recently moved to Colombia from Catalonia, becomes involved with the violence and corruption that plague the South American country, and with Aida, a seer, and Wilson, a journalist.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

A Spanish scholar and librarian, Amat has written short stories, plays, and novels, including El pais del alma (The Country of the Soul, Seix Barral, 1999). Set in a remote region of Colombia, this latest work went into a second printing just five days after the first edition was launched. While grisly headlines usually accompany news related to Colombia's current conflict, Amat tells the story quietly and poetically from within. Rat, a young Catalan woman, lives with her lover, Wilson, a Colombian journalist in hiding, in an isolated coastal area without electricity or running water, exposed to the elements of the jungle and the sea pronounced rain, dense forest, mosquitoes, unrelenting heat, and humidity. While Rat is there to live out her bohemian fantasy, she has to witness, at close range, the reality of war, from U.S.-sponsored aerial fumigations to homemade guerrilla bombs. Amat's writing has a distilled quality to it; every sentence is precise. The novel is nontraditional, without quotation marks for dialog and with shifts in the narration from first person to third. As a result, the prose has a dreamlike quality, which is at times confusing but always alluring. Highly recommended for libraries and bookstores with Spanish-language literature collections. Tatiana de la Tierra, Univ. at Buffalo Lib., NY
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Edition details

• Publisher: Planeta Pub Corp
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 8432211206
• ISBN 13: 9788432211201
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 237