Name: Tiempo de Cenizas / Times of Ashes (in Spanish)
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Author: Jorge Volpi
ISBN: 9786073149426

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Tiempo de Cenizas / Times of Ashes (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jorge Volpi

Publisher

Debolsillo

Topic

Novela

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

552

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.8 x 12.7 x 4.1 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9786073149426

Edited in

México

Edition No.

2016

Synopsis "Tiempo de Cenizas / Times of Ashes (in Spanish)"

La bióloga soviética Irina Gránina contempla el derrumbe del comunismo y, con él, la rebeldía de su hija, primera víctima del triunfo del capitalismo. En el otro extremo del mundo, Jennifer Moore, funcionaria del Fondo Monetario Internacional, lucha con su ambicioso marido y con su hermana Allison, su exacto reverso, activista contra la globalización. Por último, Éva Horváth, genio de la informática, se empeña en descubrir los secretos de la inteligencia, siempre torturada por sus cambios de ánimo y sus múltiples y cada vez más celosos amantes.Relato científico, fábula detectivesca, suma de géneros, esta novela es una fascinante exploración de la avaricia humana a la vez que un despiadado examen de la pasión y el egoísmo que dominan a nuestra especie.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe Soviet biologist Irina Gránina contemplates the collapse of communism and with it, her daughter's rebellion, the first victim of the triumph of capitalism On the other side of the world, Jennifer Moore, an officer at the International Monetary Fund, struggles with her ambitious husband and her sister Allison, the exact opposite, anti-globalization activism. Finally, Éva Horváth, a computer genius, always tortured by her mood swings and multiple, and increasingly jealous, lovers, is determined to discover the secrets of intelligence.

Jorge Volpi

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Jorge Volpi (Mexico, 1968) is the author of the novels La paz de los sepulcros and El temperamento melancólico. With En busca de Klingsor (Biblioteca Breve and Deux Océans-Grinzane Cavour awards) he began a “Twentieth Century Trilogy”, the following parts of which are El fin de la locura and No será la Tierra. He has also written the short novels collected in the volume Días de ira, as well as Sanar tu piel amarga, El jardín devastado and Oscuro bosque oscuro. He is the author of the essays La imaginación y el poder, La guerra y las palabras, Mentiras contagiosas (Mazatán Award for the best book of the year 2008), El insomnio de Bolívar (Debate-Casa de América Award, 2009) and Leer la mente. In 2009, he received the José Donoso Award from Chile for his entire body of work. He has been a professor at Emory, Cornell, Las Américas de Puebla, Pau, Catholic University of Chile, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Princeton. He has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and a member of the National System of Creators of Mexico. He has been decorated as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and with the Order of Isabel la Católica of Spain. He contributes to various newspapers and the magazine The Nation. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages.

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