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El ltimo da de Terranova / The Last Day of terranova - Manuel Rivas

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Title
El ltimo da de Terranova / The Last Day of terranova
Author
Manuel Rivas
format
Paperback
Publisher
Alfaguara
Language
Spanish
UK Publication Date
20160308

Description

La vida de Vicenzo Fontana est a punto de entrar en Liquidacin Final cuando su librera se ve asediada por la codicia implacable de los especuladores inmobiliarios. Es el ao 2014 y Terranova corre peligro de desaparecer tras ms de sesenta aos de resistencia ante los temporales ms duros de la historia. Dcadas en las que, dirigida primero por sus padres -Amaro y Comba- y por su to Eliseo, y luego por l, fue siempre refugio para disidentes, perseguidos, libros prohibidos y contrabandistas de cultura. Un territorio de la memoria con una geografa propia, un sitio donde el exilio nunca ocurri.

Aunque Terranova fue su hogar, Vicenzo, que arrastra en la vejez las secuelas de una enfermedad infantil, se rebela en su juventud contra los libros. Alejado del ambiente familiar, conoce en Madrid a Gara, una enigmtica chica argentina con la que regresa a Terranova a finales de 1975.

Es entonces cuando aprende de los libros todo lo importante, aquello que su familia siempre supo: cmo fingen, cmo ayudan, cmo ensean a amar, cmo acompaan y cmo salvan.

El ltimo da de Terranova es el relato de una lucha silenciosa contra la barbarie. Con la sensibilidad y el dominio del lenguaje que caracteriza su narrativa, Manuel Rivas construye una emocionante historia protagonizada por seres al tiempo valerosos y vulnerables, cuya vida es la suma de todo lo que cuentan, lo que imaginan y lo que jams llegan a decir.


ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Vicenzo Fontana's life is about to be liquidated when his bookstore is besieged by the implacable greed of real estate speculators. Athough Terranova was his home, Vicenzo, who carries with him the consequences of a childhood illness, rebels in his youth against books. Outside of his familiar environment, in Madrid he meets Gara, an enigmatic Argentinean girl with whom he returns to Terranova at the end of 1975.

It is then that he learns everything important about books, that which his family already knew: how they imitate, how they help, how they teach about love, how the accompany, and how they save.

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