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With characteristic humor, elegance and fine inexhaustible tenderness, Pedro Zarraluki revealed in the stories I hope in the unexpected ability of lives that seem to have bottomed out to resurface with imagination and regain their dignity.
The characters in these stories do not know they are observed.
A girl teaches his father to be asleep to escape the impasses;
an elderly woman watching television for the first time with The Godfather discover the relationship between time and grasshoppers;
the conversation between two brothers becomes a rebellion against life that gave his father;
Sonia engulfs cans of condensed milk as relief from a present that overflows ... And then when the moment that something vital will change for them without them even aware of what happens arrives.
Any of us, have been observed at a time of weak intensity could inhabit this book.
The appointment will be on Thursday May 5 at the library of the Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy, from 20.00, and the author will be accompanied by M.ª Jose Benitez, high school teacher and member of the Promoter Group Mandarache Prize.
Zarraluki was precisely this literary contest finalist in its 2010 edition with the work All that we both like.
THE AUTHOR
Zarraluki Pedro (Barcelona, ​​1954) has published, among other novels, The head of the frogs, which was Prize City of Barcelona Prize Critical Eye RNE;
The story of silence, Herralde Prize;
A difficult assignment, 2005 Nadal Prize finalist and José Manuel Lara Foundation Award;
and all that we both like, all translated into several languages.
It also works sporadically in anthologies, he is the author of storybooks Gallery enormities;
Family portrait with disaster;
Humor and prodigal, a collection of his stories of humor, on a path that is completed CONTE hope in and he confirmed as a master of the genre.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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