Name: Sistema Nervioso (in Spanish)
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Author: Lina Meruane
ISBN: 9788439736073

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lina Meruane

Publisher

Literatura Random House

Collection

Random House

Year

2019

Language

Spanish

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.80 x 13.70

ISBN13

9788439736073

Edited in

España

Edition No.

001

Synopsis "Sistema Nervioso (in Spanish)"

La escritora chilena consolida su prestigiosa carrera literaria con una novela sobre las redes que se establecen entre el cuerpo, la enfermedad y los lazos familiares. Esta es la historia de una familia amarrada por una trama obsesiva, entre la precariedad del cuerpo, sus males incesantes y la inminencia de la pérdida. En esta particular biografía clínica de todo un clan, cada miembro va eludiendo los embates de la vida con ansiedad, con afecto, con resentimiento y violencia, con culpa, con imaginación, con chispazos de humor negro. Y con malentendidos que hacen saltar los circuitos del nerviososistema familiar. El pasado y el presente orbitan por estas páginas narradas desde la perspectiva de una protagonista que, radicada en el extranjero, mantiene un equívoco contacto consu familia mientras intenta escribir una tesis astronómica y va internándose por agujeros negros cada vez más profundos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Chilean author Lina Meruane establishes her prestigious literary career with a novel about the links and commonalities between the body, a disease, and family ties. This is the story of a family tied up with an obsessive plot between the body's instability, its persistent illnesses, and the imminence of loss. In this clinical biography of an entire clan, each member avoids life's devastations with anxiety, affection, with resentment and violence, guilt, imagination, and with sparks of dark humor; and with many misunderstandings that jump-start the family's nervous system. The past and the present circle around these pages from the protagonist's point of view, one who lives abroad and keeps a long-distance contact with her family while she tries to write a complex thesis.

Lina Meruane

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Lina Meruane (Santiago de Chile, 1970). Her fiction work includes the short story collection Las infantas (1998) and the novels Póstuma (2000), Cercada (2000), Fruta podrida (2007) and Sangre en el ojo (2012, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award); the latter has been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. She has received the Cálamo Otra Mirada literary awards (Spain, 2016) and Anna Seghers (Berlin, 2011), as well as scholarships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2004), National Endowment for the Arts (2010) and DAAD Artists in Berlin (2017). Among her non-fiction books are the essay Viajes virales (2012) and the chronicle-essay Volverse Palestina (2014), winner of the Chilean Arab Culture Institute Award in 2015. She currently teaches Latin American culture and creative writing at New York University.

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