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Agua Por Todas Partes - by Leonardo Padura (Paperback)

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  • Una fascinante ventana abierta a la sala de máquinas de Padura, que permite al lector curiosear por todo aquello que rodea y conforma su escritura.Los libros de Leonardo Padura están hechos de historia, y de literatura, y de humo de cigarro cubano, y del béisbol al que tan aficionado es el narrador de La Habana.
  • Author(s): Leonardo Padura
  • 368 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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Una fascinante ventana abierta a la sala de máquinas de Padura, que permite al lector curiosear por todo aquello que rodea y conforma su escritura.


Los libros de Leonardo Padura están hechos de historia, y de literatura, y de humo de cigarro cubano, y del béisbol al que tan aficionado es el narrador de La Habana. La nueva obra de Padura es una celebración y un homenaje al género de la novela, del que se siente tan deudor; en sus páginas aborda cuestiones en torno este invento que lleva ya cuatro siglos tratando las cuestiones de los humanos y siendo una herramienta de transformación de la sociedad y un reflejo de ella. Sin embargo, Padura no esquiva el ámbito personal y nos muestra la parte más íntima de su trabajo, la cacharrería, la mesa donde cobran vida personajes y tramas que luego pasan a formar parte de sus celebradas novelas. Contiene un brillante relato de cómo se transforma en material narrativo lo que empieza siendo una tenue luz en la mente del escritor. Dicho en palabras del propio autor: «entre una obsesión abstracta, casi filosófica y el complicado proceso de escribir una novela, existe un trecho largo, lleno de obstáculos y retos».


Padura lleva gentilmente de la mano al lector, y se encarga de iluminar ese complicado camino hasta dejarlo a las puertas del edificio de la novela.


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A fascinating window open to Padura's engine room, which allows the reader to look at everything that surrounds and shapes his writing.


Leonardo Padura's books are made of history, and literature, and Cuban cigar smoke, and of baseball to which the narrator from Havana is so fond. Padura's new work is a celebration and a tribute to the genre of the novel, to which he feels so indebted; In its pages he addresses issues around this invention that has been dealing with human issues for four centuries and being a tool for the transformation of society and a reflection of it. However, Padura does not shy away from the personal sphere and shows us the most intimate part of his work, the china shop, the table where characters and plots come to life that later become part of his celebrated novels. It contains a brilliant account of how what begins as a dim light in the writer's mind is transformed into narrative material. In the author's own words: "between an abstract, almost philosophical obsession and the complicated process of writing a novel, there is a long way, full of obstacles and challenges".


Padura gently takes the reader by the hand, and is in charge of illuminating that complicated path until he leaves him at the doors of the building of the novel.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.8 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Literary
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 368
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: Leonardo Padura
Language: Spanish
Street Date: October 8, 2019
TCIN: 1003040754
UPC: 9786070760662
Item Number (DPCI): 247-48-2783
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.55 pounds
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