El don de la vida / The Gift of Life (Spanish Edition)

By Vallejo, Fernado

Publishers Summary:
On a bench in a park in Medellin an old man and his close friend sit deep in conversation while the city shifts and changes, and time passes by. In an attempt to maintain the status quo, the old man carries a small notebook where he writes down the names of all his dead: they already add up to 657, and he soon wants to reach the 700 mark. Spanish Description: En un banco de un parque de Medellin un hombre viejo conversa con un compadre, mientras la ciudad se mueve y cambia, mientras la vida pasa; el viejo, sin embargo, quiere que todo siga igual. Para fijar el tiempo lleva una libreta en la que anota los nombres de los muertos que ha conocido en vida. Ya suman 657 y quiere llegar pronto a los 700.

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ISBN
978-6-07110-439-7
Publisher
Alfaguara


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Reviewed on August 1, 2010  |  Spanish Books

In an entertaining set of tales, replete with reminiscences, male eroticism, iconoclastic opinions, and cascading torrents of semen, one of the deans of queer Latin American letters scores with a novel that reads a bit like a memoir and a bit like a theater piece. Structured as a park-bench dialog between a graying gay Colombian man (Vallejo himself turns 68 this year) and a curious interlocutor whose identity is revealed ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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