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«No veía nada debajo del agua, aunque abriera los ojos: una barrera viscosa, negra, fría, que por el afán de huir me parecía una sopa de aceite en la que mis brazos y mis piernas me hacían avanzar muy despacio, así los moviera con todas mis fuerzas». Héctor Abad Así empieza uno de los episodios más dramáticos de esta novela, que gira en torno a La Oculta, una finca escondida en las montañas de Colombia. Pilar, Eva y Antonio Ángel son los últimos herederos de esta tierra, que ha sobrevivido a varias generaciones de la familia. En ella han pasado los momentos más felices de su vida, pero han tenido que enfrentarse también al asedio de la violencia y el terror, al desasosiego y la huida. -- A partir de las voces de los tres hermanos, del recuento de sus amores, miedos, deseos y esperanzas, y con un deslumbrante paisaje como telón de fondo, Héctor Abad Faciolince ilumina en La Oculta las vicisitudes de una familia y de un pueblo, así como el momento en que está a punto de perderse el paraíso sobre el cual construyeron sus realidades y sus sueños. -- Una mirada íntima y transgresora a una sociedad pujante y tradicionalista, que confirma a Héctor Abad como uno de los grandes escritores de la literatura latinoamericana actual. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Three siblings, now elderly, narrate the events of The Hideaway, a country estate devastated by the gales of Colombian history. The names are biblical and old-fashioned: Jericho, in Antioch. And in a zone on the outskirts of Jericho, a country estate hidden away in the mountain: The Hideaway. Three siblings: Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel, are the last members of an old family, and the heirs to this property. The estate, in an open jungle colonized by their gread-grandparents, has been the foundation and reason for living of several generations of the Ángel family. After having survived civil wars and economic crises for almost a century, the estate and family face new threats: militias, drug traffickers, paramilitaries, miners, and businessmen. La Oculta The Hideaway The lives, loves, fears, dreams, and hopes of the siblings are irrevocably linked to the luck of The Hideaway. If the estate is lost, destroyed by the gales of history, a way of life and of feeling will have been lost forever.
About the Author: Héctor Abad Faciolince (Medellín, Colombia, 1958) es sin duda una de las voces primordiales de la literatura colombiana contemporánea. Estudió Lenguas y Literaturas Modernas en la Universidad de Turín, Italia. Es columnista del diario El Espectador, de Bogotá, colaborador habitual de El País y de la revista literaria El Malpensante. Entre otros, Abad ha publicado los siguientes libros: Asuntos de un hidalgo disoluto (Alfaguara, 1994); Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes (Alfaguara, 1997, traducida al italiano, alemán, griego, portugués e inglés); Fragmentos de amor furtivo (Alfaguara, 1998); Angosta (2003), y Traiciones de la memoria (Alfaguara, 2009). Con su tercera novela, titulada Basura, obtuvo en España el I Premio Casa de América de Narrativa Innovadora. Su libro más celebrado es El olvido que seremos (2006), el cual recibió recientemente los premios Casa de América Latina en Portugal, y WOLA-Duke en Estados Unidos.


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  • ISBN-13: 9786071137357
  • Publisher: Alfaguara
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfaguara
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 6071137357
  • Publisher Date: 25 Aug 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 340
  • Series Title: Spanish
  • Weight: 435 gr

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