En el Tiempo de la Luz: Una Novela
Autor Benjamin Alire Saenzen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 oct 2005
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060779221
ISBN-10: 0060779225
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: HARPERCOLLINS;
Colecția Rayo
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States
ISBN-10: 0060779225
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: HARPERCOLLINS;
Colecția Rayo
Locul publicării:Grand Rapids, United States
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Tras
la
muerte
de
sus
padres
en
un
accidente
automovilístico,
el
joven
Andrés
Segovia
y
sus
hermanos
se
ven
obligados
a
mudarse
a
México
con
el
resto
de
la
familia.
Esta
decisión,
a
pesar
de
haber
sido
tomada
con
la
mejor
de
las
intenciones,
es
un
error
que
trastornará
para
siempre
la
vida
de
Andrés.
Después de varios años de vivir en México luchando contra el estigma de ser un hispano nacido en Estados Unidos y sintiéndose siempre fuera de lugar, Andrés decide regresar a los Estados Unidos. Las autoridades lo detienen un día y lo ponen bajo la tutela de una terapeuta llamada Grace Delgado, una viuda que vive en El Paso. Su relación se convierte pronto en una gran amistad, y justo cuando comienzan a florecer y a disfrutar de su vida juntos, se descubren secretos inconcebibles acerca de la muerte de los padres de Andrés . . . secretos que bien pueden destruir la posibilidad que tienen de ser felices.
Después de varios años de vivir en México luchando contra el estigma de ser un hispano nacido en Estados Unidos y sintiéndose siempre fuera de lugar, Andrés decide regresar a los Estados Unidos. Las autoridades lo detienen un día y lo ponen bajo la tutela de una terapeuta llamada Grace Delgado, una viuda que vive en El Paso. Su relación se convierte pronto en una gran amistad, y justo cuando comienzan a florecer y a disfrutar de su vida juntos, se descubren secretos inconcebibles acerca de la muerte de los padres de Andrés . . . secretos que bien pueden destruir la posibilidad que tienen de ser felices.
Recenzii
“A
vivid
story
about
a
community
of
scarred,
deeply
human
souls
within
a
callous,
indifferent
America.”
“His characters provide rich fodder for Seanz’s unique ability to look deeply into his characters’ past to see what motivates them in the present and which of their memories are impossible to shed. A former priest and award-winning poet thoughtfully shares his meditations on multiculturalism and familial love—especially the struggle to survive its loss.”
“Ben Saenz’s vivid imagination captures all that is beautiful, agonizing and redemptive in the crossings we make through borders of geography and culture. But it is in the interior journeys of the psyche and the soul that we must find salvation; Saenz’s brilliant prose penetrates to that core and he finds and exposes that truth. A reader can ask for no more than this: to be spellbound by a story, and to come to the last page with a sense of having been being changed and allowed to carry something of it away.”
“Only Benjamin Alire Sáenz. . . can capture, with his acrobatic skill of voice, character and theme, the darkness, the hidden life of betrayal, and the nascent, eternal, always hopeful redemption to be found in the heat and dust of our misunderstood land.”
“Saenz offers beautifully nuanced characterization, and interweaves disparate needs and lives with a skillful, sensitive touch.”
“Set in El Paso, Texas, Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s novelIn Perfect Lightis suffused with the desiccating heat and dusty brilliance of a Southwestern border town—a landscape that seems perfectly suited to his cast of burned- out, emotionally withdrawn characters.”
“[Sáenz] takes [his characters’] lives and twists them, turns them, throws wrenches and sharp corners in them. He’s merciless about making these people real and about making them go through things we all go through— anger, unfairness, love, and death.”
“Saenz captures what we all do every day, really, to find peace for ourselves.”
“Dignified but heart-wrenching . . . Sáenz has plottedIn Perfect Lightimpeccably.”
“Sáenz’s luminous prose shines through.”
“His characters provide rich fodder for Seanz’s unique ability to look deeply into his characters’ past to see what motivates them in the present and which of their memories are impossible to shed. A former priest and award-winning poet thoughtfully shares his meditations on multiculturalism and familial love—especially the struggle to survive its loss.”
“Ben Saenz’s vivid imagination captures all that is beautiful, agonizing and redemptive in the crossings we make through borders of geography and culture. But it is in the interior journeys of the psyche and the soul that we must find salvation; Saenz’s brilliant prose penetrates to that core and he finds and exposes that truth. A reader can ask for no more than this: to be spellbound by a story, and to come to the last page with a sense of having been being changed and allowed to carry something of it away.”
“Only Benjamin Alire Sáenz. . . can capture, with his acrobatic skill of voice, character and theme, the darkness, the hidden life of betrayal, and the nascent, eternal, always hopeful redemption to be found in the heat and dust of our misunderstood land.”
“Saenz offers beautifully nuanced characterization, and interweaves disparate needs and lives with a skillful, sensitive touch.”
“Set in El Paso, Texas, Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s novelIn Perfect Lightis suffused with the desiccating heat and dusty brilliance of a Southwestern border town—a landscape that seems perfectly suited to his cast of burned- out, emotionally withdrawn characters.”
“[Sáenz] takes [his characters’] lives and twists them, turns them, throws wrenches and sharp corners in them. He’s merciless about making these people real and about making them go through things we all go through— anger, unfairness, love, and death.”
“Saenz captures what we all do every day, really, to find peace for ourselves.”
“Dignified but heart-wrenching . . . Sáenz has plottedIn Perfect Lightimpeccably.”
“Sáenz’s luminous prose shines through.”