The Last Days of El Comandante
$50.02
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2019
Summary
Venezuela 2012
The President’s illness casts a shadow over the lives of his citizens. He divides opinion, but life without him is almost unimaginable.
Miguel Sanabria, a retired oncologist, is ambivalent towards the President but caught between a virulently anti-Chavez wife and an equally vehement pro-Chavez brother. He is asked by his nephew to hide a mobile phone carrying secret footage that could shed new light on the President’s condition.
His neighbour Fredy has…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857056115 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857056115 |
| Author: | Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Rosalind Harvey |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 311g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 138mm x 26mm |
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Tyszka is a perceptive, original writer.
Tyszka is a perceptive, original writer. - Irish Times.
The Venezuelan Ian McEwan.The best novel about charisma I’ve read in a long time. Everything it tells us rings true. - BabeliaHis devilish ability to bring together distinct storylines that converge in the apotheosis of a brilliant finale is proof of Barrera’s awareness of the finer points of deft and intelligent writing. - El Periodico.Barrera’s prose is clear, rousing, borne of authenticity when it comes to expressing the contradictions of human beings. - La Vanguardia.Why is Alberto Barrera Tyzska’s novel so good? Because, from the first phrase to the last, he keeps us interested, curious, and concerned for what will happen. Because this flair of his reveals a great deal of cultivation, study, and insight into the art of creating suspense. Because his ability to create a redoubtable literary space, which we inevitably associate with the International Sanatorium Berghof in The Magic Mountain, Leopold Bloom’s Dublin, or mad Ahab’s Pequod, is breathtaking. - El Nacional.About The Author
Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Alberto Barrera Tyszka, poet and novelist, is well known in Venezuela for his Sunday column in the newspaper El Nacional. He co-wrote the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Hugo Chavez (2007), the first biography of the Venezuelan president. His novel The Sickness won the prestigious Herralde Prize and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Homeland or Death was the winner of the Tusquets Prize.
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