El Libro de Emma Reyes / the Book of Emma Reyes : Memoria Por Correspondencia
Language: Spanish
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018
- Softcover
- Used

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- Title
- El Libro de Emma Reyes / the Book of Emma Reyes : Memoria Por Correspondencia
- Author
- Reyes, Emma
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 0525564985
- ISBN 13
- 9780525564980
- Item weight
- 0.401 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
Esta sorprendente memoria se convirtió clásico instantáneo cuando se publicó por primera vez en Colombia en 2012, casi una década después de la muerte de su autora, quien fue alentada en sus escritos por Gabriel García Márquez. Mediante veintitrés cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germán Arciniegas a lo largo de treinta años, Reyes describe de manera viva y con detalles pintorescos el coraje notable y la imaginación ilimitada de una niña que crece con nada.
Emma Reyes era una niña ilegítima, criada en una habitación sin ventanas en Bogotá sin agua ni inodoro, y que sobrevivía únicamente de su ingenio para mantenerse a ella misma y a su hermana. Abandonada por su madre, ambas niñas se son acogidas por un convento católico que albergaba a 150 niñas huérfanas, donde lavaban ollas, planchaban y reparaban la ropa, fregaban pisos, limpiaban baños, cosían prendas y telas decorativas para las monjas y vivían con temor al Diablo. Analfabeta y sin saber nada del mundo exterior, Emma escapó a los diecinueve años, estableciendo una carrera como artista y forjando amistades con Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera, así como con artistas e intelectuales europeos. El retrato de su infancia que surge de este relato clarividente inspira en el lector un asombro especial hacia la deslumbrante vida de una talentosa escritora cuyo talento permaneció oculto por demasiado tiempo.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York Times
An extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood defined by uprootedness and migration.
Emma Reyes was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogotá with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by her mother, she moved with her sister to a Catholic convent, where she scrubbed floors and mended garments for the nuns—and lived in fear of the Devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, she escaped at age nineteen, eventually establishing a career as an artist, befriending the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals, and being encouraged in her writing by Gabriel García Márquez.
Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, this astonishing memoir describes in painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Discovered only after Reyes’s death, it reveals a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long.
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