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Retorno 201 / Retorno 201 Street
Retorno 201 / Retorno 201 Street | Guillermo Arriaga
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Me siento muy, pero muy afortunado de haber crecido en la colonia Unidad Modelo, en particular, en el Retorno 201. En mi barrio pasaban cosas y cada una de ellas me brind historias para narrar. Guillermo Arriaga En el Retorno 201 de la Ciudad de Mxico, el autor pas su infancia, adolescencia y parte de su juventud. Ah su narrativa se top con historias que hienden como cuchillos, en donde afloran la violencia y el amor, la ternura y la brutalidad, la paz y la furia. Con agudo instinto callejero, Arriaga presenta personajes llenos de intensidad y de contradicciones, al lmite del caos y enfrentados a complejos dilemas morales. En sus historias, desnuda el alma humana, como en la escalofriante "Lilly", que relata lo que unos chicos le hacen a su prima con retraso mental; en "La viuda Daz", conmovedora historia de amor de una joven que cuida a su marido enfermo, varios aos mayor que ella; "El invicto", donde se revelan los crueles cdigos de barrio; o "Triloga", que retrata la violencia de tres judiciales sobre un inocente que cometi el error de pasar frente a ellos. Retorno 201 es el primer libro del ganador del Premio Alfaguara, con cuentos escritos en su mayora entre 1983 y 1988 (adems de "Tarde", que escribi para esta edicin, y "Triloga", relato que crea perdido y recin recuper), que muestra a sus nuevos lectores al escritor fiero, indmito y poderoso que ha sido Arriaga por dcadas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature These eleven stories from one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists" combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called "non-inventor" brings snow-white rabbits to an island inhabited exclusively by birds, with horrific results. In "Myotragus" a privileged man's understanding of the world is violently disrupted by the sight of a creature long thought extinct. Elsewhere in these stories that map dingy hotel rooms, shape-shifting cities, and graveyards, an unsightly "paw" grows from a writer's earlobe and a grandmother floats silently in the corner of the room.
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Even with a short story collection, where most were written before his beloved novels, Arriaga‘s narrative is unmatched.

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BarbaraBB I don‘t know him. Must look for a translation of one of his books! 2w
Amor4Libros @BarbaraBB He‘s my 2nd favorite Latin American author. (Isabel Allende will always be #1!) 2w
BarbaraBB Allende I read in my twenties but haven‘t read for a long long time. I used to love her though. I think my favorite is Claudia Piñeiro 2w
Amor4Libros @BarbaraBB Piñeiro is amazing, too! I‘m so glad I still have quite a few books from her backlist to go through ? 2w
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Next up on audio…Had free credit from Audible and was finally able to get my hands on Arriaga‘s short story collection.

Already listened to the first one and this man never ceases to surprise me.