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Monstruos marinos / Sea Monsters (Spanish Edition)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Chloe Aridjis
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    220
    Publisher:
    PRH Grupo Editorial (June 23, 2020)
    Language:
    Spanish
    ISBN-13:
    9786073189521
    ISBN-10:
    6073189524
    Weight:
    7.2oz
    Dimensions:
    5.95" x 9.05" x 0.5"
    Case Pack:
    44
    File:
    RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260705T115756_156890248-20260705.xml
    Folder:
    RandomHouse
    List Price:
    $17.95
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    $13.82
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-RH
    Discount Code:
    A
    QuickShip:
    Yes
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    Mexico
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Lumen
  • Overview

    Un trabajo abrasador e hipnótico; sorprendente historia de encantamiento y desilusión. -Laura Esquivel, autora del bestseller Como agua para chocolate.

    «Aridjis es muy hábil al conjurar ese embeleso adolescente que captura el significado debajo de cada superficie. Como la escritura de Sebald o Cusk, la suya ronda sus propias omisiones... La imagen del naufragio se avecina amenazante para Aridjis; se convierte en una lente muy útil para ver este libro autónomo, inescrutable y extrañamente cautivador como un objeto rescatado que quiere volver al mar.» -Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

    Una tarde de otoño en la Ciudad de México, Luisa, de diecisiete años, no regresa a casa. En su lugar, aborda un camión a la costa del Pacífico con Tomás, un muchacho al que apenas conoce. Él parece representar todo lo que le falta a su vida: temeridad, impulso e independencia. Y Tomás también puede ayudarla a satisfacer una extraña obsesión: encontrar a la compañía de enanos ucranianos. Según los reportes del periódico, los enanos escaparon recientemente de un circo soviético durante una gira por México. Los imaginados destinos de estos artistas circenses llenan los surrealistas sueños de Luisa cuando se instala en una comunidad playera de Oaxaca. Rodeada de hippies, nudistas, buscadores de tesoros y excéntricos contadores de historias, ella busca a alguien, a quien sea, que le prometa que sin importar nada, seguirá siendo un misterio.

    Todo esto es una misión más fácil de imaginar que de lograr. Mientras pasea por la orilla del mar y visita el bar local, Luisa comienza a desaparecer peligrosamente de las vidas de los desconocidos de Zipolite, la Playa de los muertos.

    ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

    "Aridjis is deft at conjuring the teenage swooniness that apprehends meaning below every surface. Like Sebald’s or Cusk’s, her haunted writing patrols its own omissions . . . The figure of the shipwreck looms large for Aridjis. It becomes a useful lens through which to see this book, which is self-contained, inscrutable, and weirdly captivating, like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea." ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

    One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking―recklessness, impulse, independence.

    Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa’s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will “promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery.” It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the “Beach of the Dead.”

    Meanwhile, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us.