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by Selva Almada (Author)

La llegada de un predicador y su hija al taller de un mecánico y su ayudante en medio del monte chaqueño bajo el sol abrasador anuncia cambios y tormentas.

El calor agobia en el monte chaqueño. Lloverá? Varados por una falla mecánica, el reverendo Pearson y su hija Leni esperan pacientes que el Gringo Bauer y Tapioca, el chico que hace años han dejado a su cuidado, pueda repararla para seguir camino.

En ese cementerio de autos desmantelados y chatarra agrícola, los adolescentes pasan el rato y los adultos conversan sobre sus propias vidas. El encuentro inesperado cambiará a todos. Padres de sus hijos, hijos a su vez, los adultos se verán confrontados a sus creencias y pasados, un modo de prepararse para lo que vendrá.

Novela imprescindible, ganadora del First Book Award en el Festival Internacional del Libro de Edinburgo, El viento que arrasa convirtió inmediatamente a Selva Almada en una voz poderosa y nueva que proyectó su singularidad a toda la literatura argentina.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A taut, lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural Argentina

The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca.

As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes deeply in God, morality, and his own righteousness, and another whose life experiences have only entrenched his moral relativism and mild apathy; a quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic's assistant, and a restless, skeptical preacher's daughter. As tensions between these characters ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances are tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains.

Selva Almada's exquisitely crafted novel, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a tactile experience of the mountain, the sun, the squat trees, the broken cars, the sweat-stained shirts, and the destroyed lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical, beautiful, and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.

An essential novel, winner of the First Book Award at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, The Wind That Lays Waste immediately turned Selva Almada into a powerfuland new voice that projected its uniqueness to all Argentine literature.

Author Biography

Selva Almada nació en Entre Ríos (Argentina) en 1973. Publicó sus primeros relatos en el Semanario Análisis, de la ciudad de Paraná. Allí dirigió, entre 1997 y 1998, la revista CAelum Blue. Ha publicado las novelas Mal de muñecas, Editorial Carne Argentina, 2003; Niños, Editorial de la Universidad de La Plata, en 2005; Una chica de provincia, Editorial Gárgola, en 2007; El viento que arrasa, Mardulce Editora, en 2012, y el e-book Intemec, en Editorial Los Proyectos.
La revista Casa, de Casa de las Américas, publicó su cuento «El desapego es nuestra manera de querernos», Cuba, 2006. Relatos suyos integran algunas antologías como Una terraza propia, Editorial Norma, y Narradores del siglo XXI, Programa Opción Libros del GCBA, ambas editadas en 2006.

Ladrilleros, al igual que su anterior novela El viento que arrasa, ha sido publicada por primera vez en la editorial Mardulce, de Buenos Aires, y se incorpora ahora al catálogo de Lumen.
Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: February 22, 2022
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