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Río muerto / Dead River (Spanish Edition)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Ricardo Silva Romero
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    160
    Publisher:
    PRH Grupo Editorial (February 23, 2021)
    Language:
    Spanish
    ISBN-13:
    9789585118096
    ISBN-10:
    9585118092
    Weight:
    6.6oz
    Dimensions:
    5.93" x 9.44" x 0.38"
    Case Pack:
    50
    File:
    RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260705T121706_156890332-20260705.xml
    Folder:
    RandomHouse
    List Price:
    $16.95
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    $13.05
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-RH
    Discount Code:
    A
    QuickShip:
    Yes
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    Colombia
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Alfaguara
  • Overview

    «Se cuenta y se vuelve a contar, con estas mismas palabras que he estado usando,la fábula real de la madre que un día bisiesto fue de verdugo en verdugo pidiendo a los gritos que los mataran a ella y a sus dos hijos porque les habían dejado la familia sin padre».

    A las afueras de Belén del Chamí, un pueblo que aún no consigue aparecer en el mapa de Colombia, el mudo Salomón Palacios es asesinado a unos pasos de su casa. Después de los primeros días de duelo, su viuda, la corajuda y deslenguada Hipólita, vuelve de la oscuridad del tormento para perder de una vez por todas la cordura y salir a buscar su propio fin. Pero en medio de aquel viaje desesperado #y en el enfrentamiento con un bestiario de personajes llenos de humor y de vida en el contexto de la muerte# se topará con una tardía e inesperada vocación por seguir viva.

    Río Muerto es una de las novelas más personales de su autor, pues en ella retrata de manera vertiginosa, conmovedora y descarnada #y además de primera mano# la pérdida del padre, el duelo y la desintegración de los lazos familiares a causa de la violencia. Y confirma una intuición que ha rondado toda su obra: la de cómo lo invisible #la imaginación, la memoria, la esperanza, la ficción, la conexión con el más allá, el destino# puede resolvernos los peores dramas.

    ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

    Story tells of a fable about a mother who on a leap day went to every criminal and hit man in town crying out desperately for them to kill her and her two children because they had left her family fatherless.
     
    On the outskirts of Belén del Chamí, a town that has yet to appear on any map of Colombia, the mute Salomon Palacios is murdered a few steps from his home. After the first days of mourning, his widow, the courageous and foul-mouthed Hipolita, returns from the darkness of her anguish only to completely lose her sanity and go out to seek her own end. But in the midst of that desperate journey —and as she faces those criminals that are nothing short of beasts, but full of humor and life in the context of death— she will run into an unexpected calling to stay alive.
     
    Río Muerto / Dead River is one of its author’s most personal novels; in a vertiginous, moving, and stark way, and also firsthand, he portrays the loss of a father, as well as the grief and breakdown of families due to violence. He also confirms an intuition that has been present for his entire work: that of how the invisible —imagination, memories, hope, a connection with the afterlife, destiny— can solve the worst problems.