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    Confesion (Spanish Edition)

    €13.54
    ISBN: 9781913867676
    AuthorKohan, Martin
    Pub Date05/09/2023
    BindingPaperback
    Pages150
    AvailabilityCurrently out of stock. If available, delivery is usually 5-10 working days.
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    Brutal y sobrecogedora, una novela con la dictadura argentina como telon de fondo.

    Tres historias que forman parte de una misma historia. En 1941, en una ciudad de provincias argentina, una nina confiesa a un sacerdote los primeros y difusos impulsos sexuales que nota en su cuerpo, relacionados con la atraccion que siente por un joven apellidado Videla que pasa cada dia bajo su ventana. En 1977 un grupo de jovenes revolucionarios prepara un atentado en un aerodromo para liquidar a un Videla que ya no es joven y es conocido por todos. Y, por ultimo, una anciana -la nina de la primera historia- juega una partida de cartas con su nieto, que ha ido a visitarla a la residencia donde pasa sus dias, y entre jugada y jugada le cuenta lo que le sucedio a su hijo, el padre del chico, en lo que resulta una nueva confesion. Tres historias y tres tiempos que se entretejen para forjar una unica historia. Tres historias que hablan de dolor, culpa y confesiones.Una novela sobrecogedora y deslumbrante, construida con una brillantisima arquitectura que le permite al autor penetrar hasta la medula de las historias -de la historia- que nos relata.

    Brutal and overwhelming, Confession wrestles with the legacy of Argentina's past and the passions of one young girl.

    There are mysteries in the world of man, just as there are in the Kingdom of God, and that they too, albeit quite differently, are unfathomable.

    When Mirta Lopez looks out the dining room window, she sees a slim, self-possessed older boy on his way back from school. It's 1941 in provincial Argentina, and the sight of the Videla's eldest son has awakened in her the first uncertain, unnerving vibrations of desire. Naturally, she confesses. But she cannot stop herself. Thirty years later, Videla is a general, leading the ruling military junta, and a cell of young revolutionaries plot an ingenious attack on him, and the regime. Writing from the present into the past, Martin Kohan maps the contours of Argentina's 20th Century, but finds his center in one woman-devout, headstrong, lit up with ideas of right and wrong-not the grand historical figures of her lifetime's omnipresent, brutalizing history. "There is an art to keeping lives constant, not allowing them to be altered by facts that are merely external." And there is great beauty in Confession , its decades and landscapes, and the legacy of love and guilt playing out in one family and against the background of dictatorship's traumas.