Name: LARGA DISTANCIA (in Spanish)
Price: 30.35 EUR
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Author: Martín Caparrós
ISBN: 9789877692914

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Physical Book

Author

Martín Caparrós

Publisher

RANDOM HOUSE

Synopsis "LARGA DISTANCIA (in Spanish)"

Hoy un clásico, Larga distancia fue pionero en los noventa cuando nadie en la Argentina se animaba a editar “crónicas”. Un libro en el que, según Tomás Eloy Martínez, Caparrós consiguió lo que todo escritor persigue: encontrar su propia voz, “una voz conmovedora, memorable, que no se parece a ninguna otra”.

Por sus páginas desfilan la Unión Soviética a punto de caer; Hong Kong y el espíritu del capital; la nueva China rosa; los inicios de Evo Morales como líder cocalero; la lucha entre el vudú y la cruz en Haití; la epidemia de cólera y los bebés vendidos en Perú; una rara entrevista con Malcolm Lowry; un largo viaje en barco por los ríos del Paraguay; las últimas horas en La Higuera de Ernesto Guevara, “uno de los primeros argentinos que triunfó en el exterior”, y tantas otras historias.

Martín Caparrós

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Martín Caparrós (Buenos Aires, 1957) graduated in history in Paris, lived in Madrid and New York, directed book and cooking magazines, traveled half the world, translated Voltaire, Shakespeare, and Quevedo, received the Planeta Prize Latin America, the King of Spain award and the Guggenheim fellowship. At Anagrama, the novels To whom it may concern: "Necessary. It makes the ground tremble a little while we read it. And once closed, the ground continues to tremble" (Juan Bonilla, El Mundo); The Living (Herralde Novel Award 2011): "Dazzling. Major and definitive work" (Joaquín Marco, El Mundo); I Ate: "A feast of digression and style" (J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País); "Honest and coherent, politically incorrect and alien to verbosity, to cliché or to easy ideological wink" (Iñaki Ezquerra, El Correo); and Echeverría; the chronicles of One Moon: "The best current chronicler of Latin America: a superb interviewer, a traveler endowed with encyclopedic culture and a fine irony" (Roberto Herrscher, La Vanguardia); and Against Change. A hypervoyage to the climate apocalypse: "A strong reagent for sensitive souls or friends of the politically correct" (Leila Guerriero, El País); "Convinces as much as it seduces" (E. Paz Soldán, La Tercera, Chile); and the essay The Hunger: "Much more than an essay, much more than a novel, because Caparrós uses literature to accompany us to a hell made of a reality that is often only given distracted attention" (Roberto Saviano); "A book that will surely be important. A book that was missing" (Agustín Fernández Mallo, El Mundo)

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