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Young readers Mandarache Award and has been re-assembled this morning in the auditorium of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena to receive the second finalist of the contest, David Monteagudo, submitted the novel Weekend.
A long-awaited work, being the first published by this author Galician, based in Catalonia and virtually unknown in the literary world but who has surprised everyone with a disturbing story full of suspense.
Before meeting with about 500 high school students, David Monteagudo has presented the novel accompanied by the Councillor for Youth, Ruth Collado. This book is engaging, says the author, rather than an assertion supported by the public, with 90,000 copies sold and ten editions of the book in just a year and a half since its publication.
In the words of the author, the novel is a generational drama of a group of friends in full midlife crisis meeting in a mountain retreat for a weekend pass and fulfill an old promise connected with a shady past episode occurred another friend, the one who does not attend the meeting and whose presence hangs like a shadow to everyone.
In full meeting an external event will alter their plans and each character will act according to their particular obsessions.
Thus, the frame is filled with intrigue and mystery thrillers recalling some teen horror movies like the saga Know What You Did Last Summer o.
A WORK ABLE TO ENGAGE ANY
With this argument, the secret of success of the work of David Monteagudo is, without doubt, that is able to engage any audience, even he has never read a book or, says the author.
The intrigue and suspense will delight the younger crowd, while the adult audience can identify with the characters' personal dramas in full midlife crisis.
The gang have nothing in common with young people who were in the past, however, soon realize that the twists and turns life brings and how when it seems that you've taken your place in this world everything changes , says the author.
Under increasing pressure, the characters reveal confessions and incubated long feuds, and all under the shadow of a threat ever closer.
MAKING CARDS TO MAKING STORIES
End is the directorial debut of David Monteagudo (Viveiro, Lugo, 1962), which found its vote later as a writer in his forties but recognizes that writing has always been present in his life and, especially, is presumed to be a great reader bookworm from the age of eleven. For fourteen years he worked as a laborer in a cardboard factory Penedes and now acknowledges that as a challenge facing this new stage in her life.
Still unaccustomed to public appearances, David Monteagudo says he is surprised as much by the success of the novel as a reflection of history in the readers.
It is not meant as a work of terror, the author recognizes, but has received such Award for Best North horror novel published in Spain in 2009.
Monteagudo says it has saved several novels in a drawer and among his next projects include a second book published in October 2010, entitled Marcos Montes, which tells the story of a group of thirty miners who are trapped in a mine.
Although reminiscent of the incident that occurred in Chile, the play was written three years ago, says the author, and will the next step of his short but eventful career in the world of literature.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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