Details

Subject(s)

• Jalisco (Mexico)—Fiction [Browse]
• Sexual abuse victims—Mexico—Fiction [Browse]
• Novelists—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Novels [Browse]
• Fiction [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• novels [Browse]

Series

• Colección Ancora y delfín [More in this series]
• Colección Áncora y delfín

Summary note

• Después del éxito de su primera novela, Federico Carreño debe escribir una segunda obra que lo consolide como autor, o al menos eso le ha pedido su editora. El problema es que no se le ha ocurrido nada desde Testamento. Cuando decidió inscribirla al premio de Primera Novela de Editorial Meñique, pensó que no ganaría; sin embargo, gustó por su prosa tanto urgente como precisa y, sobre todo, por el tema: la historia de su propio abuso sexual. Será casi imposible superarla, pues, como sabe muy bien, en Testamento se encuentra la mejor versión de su propia vida. Para alejarse de todas las distracciones y superar sus bloqueos, el joven escritor decide refugiarse en El Arenal, un conjunto de apenas cuatro propiedades ubicado en una playa perdida de México. En ese paraje olvidado de la civilización, las fronteras entre lo real y lo ilusorio se difuminan, mientras que los fantasmas ocultos del pasado se bifurcan con sucesos extraños que rayan en lo onírico, y es ahí donde Federico no solo se enfrentará a una crisis de creatividad, sino a la verdad de que el autor del libro que marcó su existencia no ha sido él. Lisa Owen nos involucra en una trama en la que los misterios se suceden unos de otros y donde los límites entre lo verdadero y lo falso cobran un nuevo sentido en la ficción. Un impecable mise en abyme configurado con una prosa envolvente y brutal.
• After the success of his first novel, Federico Carreño must write a second work that consolidates him as an author, or at least that is what his editor has asked him to do. The problem is that nothing has occurred to him since Testament. When he decided to enter it for the First Novel Prize of Editorial Meñique, he thought that he would not win; however, he was appreciated for his prose both urgent and precise and, above all, for the subject: the story of his own sexual abuse. It will be almost impossible to overcome it, because, as you know very well, in Testament you will find the best version of your own life. To get away from all the distractions and overcome his blockages, the young writer decides to take refuge in El Arenal, a group of just four properties located on a lost beach in Mexico. In that forgotten place of civilization, the borders between the real and the illusory are blurred, while the hidden ghosts of the past bifurcate with strange events that border on the dreamlike, and it is there that Federico will not only face a crisis of creativity, but to the truth that the author of the book that marked its existence has not been him. Lisa Owen involves us in a plot in which the mysteries follow one another and where the limits between what is true and what is false take on a new meaning in fiction. An impeccable mise en abyme configured with an enveloping and brutal prose.

ISBN

• 9786070765322
• 607076532X

OCLC

1250353661

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