Manuel Vilas

Escrito a ratos desde el desgarro, y siempre desde la emociâon, este libro es la crâonica âintima de la Espaäna de las âultimas dâecadas, pero tambiâen una narraciâon sobre todo aquello que nos recuerda que somos seres vulnerables, sobre la necesidad de levantarnos y seguir adelante cuando nada parece hacerlo posible, cuando casi todos los lazos que nos unâian a los demâas han desaparecido o los hemos roto. Y sobrevivimos -- Back cover.

Ordesa

Daniel Carril

Supongo que es de esas lecturas que o bien amas y te llega hondo o bien detestas y la aborreces hasta el fin de los días. En mi caso, afortunadamente he sido del primer grupo. Albricias.

”A meditation on yearning, solitude, and self; a soul storm, a mirage of phantom figures . . . a book of deep reckoning.” —The New York Times Book Review The #1 international bestselling phenomenon—a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory. A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life considers the place where he’s from, and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is an audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life’s trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away. With the intimacy of a diarist, he reckons with the ghosts of his parents and the current specters of his divorce, his children, his career, and his addictions. In unswervingly honest prose, Vilas explores his identity after great loss—what is a person without a marriage or without parents? What is a person when faced with memories alone? Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in Spain, Vilas takes his work to a whole new level with this autobiographical novel; critics have called it “a work of art able to cauterize pain.” Elegiac and searching, Ordesa is a meditation on loss and a powerful exploration of a person who is both extraordinary and utterly ordinary—at once singular and representing us all—who transforms a time of crisis into something beautiful and redemptive.

A Novel

Arturo Hernández

Hay algo en la vulnerabilidad que “Ordesa” manifiesta en cada capítulo que me enganchó desde el inicio. La lectura no es sencilla, requiere paciencia porque lo que el autor parece haber hecho es abrirnos un espacio en su tren de pensamiento que narra de forma caótica la pérdida de sus familiares, el estatus de sus relaciones y todas las emociones que lo acompañan en cada duelo que sufre en paralelo a lo largo de su vida.

Ordesa

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