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El principio del mundo / The Beginning of the World (Spanish Edition)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Jeremías Gamboa
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    976
    Publisher:
    PRH Grupo Editorial (February 17, 2026)
    Imprint:
    Alfaguara
    Language:
    Spanish
    Audience:
    General/trade
    ISBN-13:
    9788410496798
    ISBN-10:
    8410496798
    Weight:
    44.4oz
    Dimensions:
    5.99" x 9.4" x 1.72"
    File:
    RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260405T171153_155746855-20260405.xml
    Folder:
    RandomHouse
    List Price:
    $32.95
    Country of Origin:
    Spain
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Case Pack:
    4
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    $25.37
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-RH
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    A
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  • Overview

    Una brutal radiografía del siglo XX peruano, un tributo conmovedor a la tarea crucial de los maestros y una carta rabiosa de amor a la madre

    «Una bellísima meditación sobre la memoria y el paso del tiempo, escrita con las emociones en la piel y, al mismo tiempo, con algo que sólo puedo llamar sabiduría. Gamboa es un novelista de una rara sensibilidad». —Juan Gabriel Vásquez

    «Ese había sido mi principio. Yo era hijo de esa herida».

    Un hombre de treinta y tres años regresa a su país, el Perú, sintiéndose un náufrago: no tiene pareja, amigos, capital ni trabajo, y tampoco la menor idea de hacia dónde dirigir su vida; solo ha atinado a refugiarse en casa de su madre en el barrio de su infancia, de donde salió años antes jurando que jamás volvería.

    El retorno supone un viaje a las luces y sombras de la memoria. Así, la aparición de un amigo del pasado, y con él la profesora que les enseñó a leer y escribir, produce un torbellino de revelaciones dolorosas que irá desatando su nudo interior: los fantasmas del origen, el terror del país en el que creció, la experiencia de la precariedad en la escuela pública, y más allá, los padecimientos de la vida rural andina y el descubrimiento de las brechas sociales y raciales.

    El principio del mundo es un tratado adolorido de la memoria personal y familiar, una brutal radiografía del siglo XX peruano, pero también un tributo conmovedor a la tarea crucial de los maestros y una carta rabiosa y desesperada de amor a la madre. Con esta obra ambiciosa y compleja, Jeremías Gamboa expande su universo personal y rinde un homenaje de excepción a la novela latinoamericana como instrumento para nombrar la realidad.

    ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

    A thirty-three-year-old man returns to his native Peru and feels lost: he has no partner, friends, money or work, or the slightest idea of where his life his headed. He holes up in his mother’s house in the neighborhood he left years ago, vowing never to return.

    There he experiences a whirlwind of memories, exacerbated by the reappearance of an old friend and the teacher who taught him to read and write. The resulting revelations, while painful, begin to unravel the emotional knot he’s been carrying inside him: the ghosts of his origins, the terror that held sway over the country during his childhood, the shame of being an impoverished public-school student, the hardships of rural Andean life, and his discovery of social and racial injustice.

    The Beginning of the World is a personal and family memoir, a brutally frank dissection of twentieth-century Peruvian society. At the same time, it is a moving tribute to the essential role of teachers and a wrenching love letter to the protagonist’s mother. In this complex and ambitious work, Jeremías Gamboa expands his personal universe and pays homage to the Latin American novel as a tool for naming reality.