Name: LA GUERRA MODERNA (in Spanish)
SKU: 54896758
Price: 684.00 ZAR
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Author: Martín Caparrós
ISBN: 9789877692938

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Physical Book

Author

Martín Caparrós

Publisher

RANDOM HOUSE

Synopsis "LA GUERRA MODERNA (in Spanish)"

Escritas a lo largo de los años noventa, las crónicas reunidas en este libro continúan el recorrido que Caparrós inició con su Larga distancia. El turismo pedófilo en Sri Lanka —probablemente su relato más leído—, la mafia de la música tropical argentina, la comunidad de skinheads y neonazis en Berlín, el impresionante Museo del Holocausto en Washington, el carnaval de Río, la siempre fidelísima Habana, la guerra en la ex Yugoslavia y un recorrido por el país más aislado de la Tierra son solo algunos de los temas que, con su característico tono a la vez juguetón y erudito, ataca Caparrós, entre breves aguafuertes sobre Nueva York, donde entonces vivía.

La guerra moderna es crónica en todo su esplendor, por uno de los maestros del género.

Martín Caparrós

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Martín Caparrós (Buenos Aires, 1957) graduated in history in Paris, lived in Madrid and New York, directed book and cooking magazines, traveled half the world, translated Voltaire, Shakespeare, and Quevedo, received the Planeta Prize Latin America, the King of Spain award and the Guggenheim fellowship. At Anagrama, the novels To whom it may concern: "Necessary. It makes the ground tremble a little while we read it. And once closed, the ground continues to tremble" (Juan Bonilla, El Mundo); The Living (Herralde Novel Award 2011): "Dazzling. Major and definitive work" (Joaquín Marco, El Mundo); I Ate: "A feast of digression and style" (J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País); "Honest and coherent, politically incorrect and alien to verbosity, to cliché or to easy ideological wink" (Iñaki Ezquerra, El Correo); and Echeverría; the chronicles of One Moon: "The best current chronicler of Latin America: a superb interviewer, a traveler endowed with encyclopedic culture and a fine irony" (Roberto Herrscher, La Vanguardia); and Against Change. A hypervoyage to the climate apocalypse: "A strong reagent for sensitive souls or friends of the politically correct" (Leila Guerriero, El País); "Convinces as much as it seduces" (E. Paz Soldán, La Tercera, Chile); and the essay The Hunger: "Much more than an essay, much more than a novel, because Caparrós uses literature to accompany us to a hell made of a reality that is often only given distracted attention" (Roberto Saviano); "A book that will surely be important. A book that was missing" (Agustín Fernández Mallo, El Mundo)

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