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portada Difficult Light
Type
Physical Book
Translated by
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
150
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
15.7 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.14 kg.
ISBN13
9781939810601

Difficult Light

Tomás González (Author) · Andrea Rosenberg (Translated by) · Archipelago Books · Paperback

Difficult Light - Tomás González

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Synopsis "Difficult Light "

Grappling with his son's death, the painter David explores his grief through art and writing, etching out the rippled landscape of his loss. Over twenty years after his son's death, nearly blind and unable to paint, David turns to writing to examine the deep shades of his loss. Despite his acute pain, or perhaps because of it, David observes beauty in the ordinary: in the resemblance of a woman to Egyptian portraits, in the horseshoe crabs that wash up on Coney Island, in the foam gathering behind a ferry propeller; in these moments, González reveals the world through a painter's eyes. From one of Colombia's greatest contemporary novelists, Difficult Light is a formally daring meditation on grief, written in candid, arresting prose.
Tomás González
  (Author)
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Tomás González (Medellín, 1950) es un escritor colombiano destacado por su exploración de la naturaleza humana, la memoria y la muerte. Estudió filosofía en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y comenzó su carrera literaria en la década de 1970. Tras vivir en Nueva York durante 19 años, regresó a Colombia en 2002 debido a problemas de salud de su esposa y actualmente reside en la represa de El Peñol, en Antioquia.

Su obra abarca novelas, cuentos y poesía, con títulos como Primero estaba el mar (1983), Para antes del olvido (1987), La luz difícil (2007) y El lejano amor de los extraños (2012). Su estilo se caracteriza por una prosa precisa y profunda, que ha sido comparada con la de autores como Borges y Rulfo.

En 2025, González publicó Vista del abismo, una colección de relatos que exploran la fragilidad de la existencia humana en un pueblo inundado. Este libro le valió el Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas, otorgado por el Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile, reconociendo su aportación significativa a la literatura iberoamericana.
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