Name: Plata Quemada (in Spanish)
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Author: Ricardo Piglia
ISBN: 9788490327821

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ricardo Piglia

Publisher

Debolsillo

Topic

Narrativa, Novela

Collection

Contemporanea

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.00 x 12.50

Weight

1.78

ISBN

8490327823

ISBN13

9788490327821

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Plata Quemada (in Spanish)"

Una historia estremecedora en la que la violencia no tiene límites, una narración coral con personajes inolvidables, un drama dominado por las pasiones humanas más oscuras: la traición, la avaricia, la corrupción, el miedo y la desesperación.Ricardo Piglia hace una reconstrucción ficcionada y caleidoscópica de un atraco que tuvo lugar en 1965 en la provincia de Buenos Aires. Una banda criminal, conchabada con policías y políticos corruptos, prepara el asalto a un furgón que contiene un botín millonario. Tras el golpe, abandonan a sus cómplices y huyen al norte con el dinero. Pero la ley, los medios de comunicación y los traicionados los perseguirán hasta el asedio último y sangriento en un edificio de Montevideo.Reseña:«Un relato criminal frenético.»The Times Literary Supplement ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA hair-raising story in which violence has no limits, a choral tale with unforgettable characters, a drama dominated by the darkest human passions: betrayal, greed, corruption, fear, and desperation.Ricardo Piglia creates a fictional and kaleidoscopic reconstruction of a robbery that took place in 1965 in the province of Buenos Aires. A criminal gang, in cahoots with corrupt police and politicians, prepares an assault on a truck containing a small fortune. After the hit, they abandon their accomplices and flee to the north with the money. But the law, the media, and the ones they betrayed will follow them until the final, bloody siege in a building in Montevideo. Summary: "A frenetic crime tale." –The Times Literary Supplement

Ricardo Piglia

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Ricardo Piglia (Adrogué, 1941-Buenos Aires, 2017) is unanimously considered a classic of current Spanish-language literature. He published his five novels at Anagrama: Artificial Respiration, The Absent City, Burnt Money (adapted into film by Marcelo Piñeyro; Planeta Prize Argentina), Nocturnal Target (Critics' Prize, Rómulo Gallegos Prize, International Dashiell Hammett Novel Prize, and José María Arguedas Casa de las Américas Narrative Prize) and The Path of Ida; the stories of The Invasion, False Name, Perpetual Prison and The Cases of Commissioner Croce; and the texts of Brief Forms (Bartolomé March Critic's Prize), Criticism and Fiction, The Last Reader, and Personal Anthology, which can be read as the first essays and attempts at a future autobiography, which crystallizes in The Diaries of Emilio Renzi, divided into three volumes. Piglia was also awarded the Grand Prize of Honor of the Argentine Writers Society, the José Donoso, the Ibero-American Narrative Manuel Rojas, the Konex, and the Formentor de las Letras. The critical reception of this author in Spain was truly exceptional: "Spectacular landing" (Ignacio Echevarría, El País); "One of the most lucid minds in the current Latin Hispanic American scene, not only Argentine" (Joaquín Marco, El Mundo); "There are few necessary writers who are demonstrating, today, the vitality of their intellectual proposals" (Jordi Carrión, Avui); "Ricardo Piglia, the classic rebel" (J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia)

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