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Salvar El Fuego (Premio Alfaguara 2020) / Saving the Fire - by Guillermo Arriaga (Paperback)
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- Premio Alfaguara 2020 Marina, 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.
- About the Author: Guillermo Arriaga ha publicado las novelas Escuadrón Guillotina (1991), Un dulce olor a muerte (1994), El búfalo de la noche (1999) y El Salvaje (2016), Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2017 al mejor libro del año, y la colección de cuentos Retorno 201 (2006).
- 664 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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Winner of Alfaguara literary prize, 2020.Book Synopsis
Premio Alfaguara 2020 Marina, 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 Nettel ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winning 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.Review Quotes
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.»
Review The 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."
About the Author
Guillermo Arriaga ha publicado las novelas Escuadrón Guillotina (1991), Un dulce olor a muerte (1994), El búfalo de la noche (1999) y El Salvaje (2016), Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2017 al mejor libro del año, y la colección de cuentos Retorno 201 (2006). Su obra ha sido traducida a dieciocho idiomas. Escribió las películas Amores perros, 21 gramos y Babel --que forman una trilogía que apostó por la narrativa no lineal y que reflexiona sobre el peso de la vida por encima de la muerte-- y Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada, que recibió el premio al mejor guion en el Festival de Cannes 2005. En 2008 presentó su ópera prima como director: The Burning Plain. Recientemente produjo y coescribió Desde allá, primera película iberoamericana que ha ganado el León de Oro en el Festival de Cine de Venecia. ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY Guillermo Arriaga is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director, and producer. He has published the novels Escuadrón Guillotina / Guillotine Squad (1991), Un dulce olor a muerte / Sweet Scent of Death (1994), El búfalo de la noche / The Night Buffalo (1999), and El Salvaje / The Savage (2016), Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2017 for the best book of the year, and the collection of short stories Retorno 201 / Return 201 (2006); his works have been translated into eighteen different languages. He wrote the screenplays for the multi-award winning movies "Amores perros", "21 Grams", and "Babel", which make up "The Death Trilogy" that opted for a non-linear narrative and that reflects the theme of death, and for "Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada / The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada", which received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award. In 2008 he made his debut as a movie director with The Burning Plain, and recently he produced and co-wrote "Desde allá", the first Latin American film that has won the León de Oro at the Venice Film Festival.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 1.9 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 664
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Alfaguara
Format: Paperback
Author: Guillermo Arriaga
Language: Spanish
Street Date: May 19, 2020
TCIN: 1003273854
UPC: 9781644731925
Item Number (DPCI): 247-24-4361
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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