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Así En La Tierra (on Earth as It Is in Heaven)

Así En La Tierra (on Earth as It Is in Heaven)

          
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Un cross en la mandíbula que aplaudieron los lectores y críticos de todo el mundo. Amor y violencia o cómo hacerse un hombre en la más despiadada de las islas
Davidú sube a un ring por primera vez cuando tiene nueve años. Ha crecido sin su padre -un púgil extraordinario fallecido poco antes de su nacimiento- en una Palermo violenta y luminosa, bajo la protección del gigantesco tío Umbertino y del enigmático abuelo Rosario, que fue prisionero de guerra en Á?frica durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Así en la tierra narra cincuenta años de historia, y reúne una galería de personajes memorables: el gran amigo de DavidÁ¹, Gerruso; su entrenador de boxeo Franco; su madre, discreta y comprensiva; el teniente D'Arpa; la sabia abuela Provvidenza; el padrino Randazzo, y, sobre todo, su primer amor: Nina.

Una gran historia, trágica, cómica, inolvidable, que retrata a un niño que se convierte en hombre, y un mundo siempre en guerra, lleno de gracia y ferocidad.

La crítica ha dicho...
«Enia es tan hábil para captar el ambiente caótico de su ciudad natal como para retratar la violencia rápida, furiosa del ring de boxeo y las brutalidades de la niñez.»
The New York Times Book Review

«Una saga multigeneracional apasionante... Por una parte, la historia sobre el boxeo, con un toque de El club de la lucha, de Chuck Palahniuk, y por otra, el retrato más surrealista de la derrota de Italia en el norte de Á?frica durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que hace pensar en Murakami.»
Bill Ott, Booklist

«El libro tiene muy buenos ingredientes: Italia, boxeo, el proceso de madurez de un chico, la mafia siciliana. Pero lo que nos cautiva es la voz aguda, arenosa, que recuerda a Hemingway: ideal para una novela sobre boxeo y machismo italiano.»
GQ (8 libros que debes leer en marzo) (Estados Unidos)
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A dark, gripping coming-of-age tale that explores violence, friendship, family, and what it means to be a man. Summer, Palermo, early 1980s. The air hangs hot and heavy. The Mafia-ruled city is a powder keg ready to ignite. In a boxing gym, a fatherless nine-year-old boy climbs into the ring to face his first opponent. So begins On Earth as It Is in Heaven, a sweeping multigenerational saga that reaches back to the collapse of the Italian front in North Africa and forward to young Davidù's quest to become Italy's national boxing champion, a feat that has eluded the other men of his family. But Davide Enia, whose layered, lyrical, nonchronological novel caused a sensation when it was published in Italy in 2012, has crafted an epic that soars in miniature as well. The brutal struggles for dominance among Davidù's all male circle of friends; his strict but devoted grandmother, whose literacy is a badge of honor; his charismatic and manipulative great-uncle, who will become his trainer--the vicious scenes and sometimes unsympathetic characters Enia sketches land hard and true. On Earth as It Is in Heaven is both firmly grounded in what Leonardo Sciascia liked to call "Sicilitude" - the language and mentality of that eternally perplexing island - and devastatingly universal. A meditation on physical violence, love and sex, friendship and betrayal, boxing and ambition, Enia's novel is also a coming-of-age tale that speaks - sometimes crudely, but always honestly - about the joys and terrors of becoming a man.
About the Author: Davide Enia nacio en 1974 en Palermo. Es uno de los mas importantes dramaturgos de Italia. Entre sus obras para el teatro, escritas, dirigidas e interpretadas por el mismo, destacan Italia-Brasil 3 a 2 (2002), Scanna (2003), Maggio #43 (2004), e I capitoli dell#infanzia (2007). Ha colaborado para el exitoso programa de television Report. En 2007 condujo el programa radiofonico Diciasette Anni, Una sentimentale biografia metropolitana en Radio 2. Ha sido galardonado con, entre otros, el Premio Tondelli al Riccione de Teatro, el Premio UBU Speciale, el Premio Hystrio, el Premio Fescennino d#oro, el Premio Olimpico ETI, el Premio Vittorio Mezzogiorno y el Premio Vittorio Gassman. Tras Asi en la tierra ha publicado su segunda novela, Uomini e pecore.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788420415284
  • Publisher: Alfaguara
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfaguara
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8420415286
  • Publisher Date: 20 Oct 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Series Title: Spanish
  • Weight: 544 gr


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