El Sonido de Las Olas / The Sound of the Waves [Spanish]

By Margarita García Robayo

Tres novelas cortas «brillantes y perturbadoras (Alejandro Zambra) en las que Margarita Garc a Robayo, una de las voces m s destacadas de la literatura latinoamericana actual, expone lo mejor de su narrativa.

«Creo que es la escritora que mejor escribe sobre la intimidad. -Mariana Enriquez

En Hasta que pase un hurac n, una adolescente de clase media es la protagonista de una vida muchas veces tediosa, en una ciudad cerca del mar, de la que sue a huir. En Lo que no aprend , una ni a observa atentamente la figura que representa su padre: un abogado que ejerce pr cticas paranormales. Su voz inocente y su mirada l cida son una b squeda para sanar su propia historia. Finalmente est Educaci n sexual, un texto que se mueve entre ficci n autobiogr fica y el ensayo, ambientado en un colegio del Opus Dei del Caribe.

Con este ltimo quedan al descubierto las conexiones entre los tres t tulos: una colecci n de estampas de juventud de mujeres que se rebelan con iron a, inteligencia y arrojo frente a la tradici n y los abusos, y que intentan reinventarse constantemente en otros mundos.

Margarita Garc a Robayo mira el mundo con despiadada atenci n pero tambi n con suma naturalidad: nunca est completamente afuera de lo que observa o de lo que nombra, y el ejercicio de mirarse en el espejo no la paraliza, m s bien al contrario. Es imposible describir la cruda y c lida irreverencia de su escritura. Sus personajes se parecen entre s pero tal vez ellos no estar an de acuerdo, porque no quieren parecerse a nadie y a la vez desean fervientemente --en ocasiones a cualquier precio-- participar del mundo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Three 'brilliant and disturbing' short novels (Alejandro Zambra) in which Margarita Garc a Robayo, one of the most prominent voices in current Latin American literature, displays the best of her story telling.

"I think she's the best writer on intimacy." -Mariana Enriquez

In Until a Hurricane Passes, a middle-class teenager is the protagonist of an often tedious life, in a city near the sea, from which she dreams of fleeing. In What I Didn't Learn, a girl carefully observes the figure that her father represents: a lawyer who performs paranormal practices. Her innocent voice and her lucid gaze are a quest to heal her own story. Finally there is Sex Education, a text that moves between autobiographical fiction and the essay, set in an Opus Dei school in the Caribbean.

With the latter, the connections between the three titles are revealed: a collection of youthful portraits of women who rebel with irony, intelligence and courage in the face of tradition and abuse, and who constantly try to reinvent themselves in other worlds.

Margarita Garc a Robayo looks at the world with ruthless attention but also with extreme naturalness: she's never completely outside what she observes or what she names, and the exercise of looking at herself in the mirror does not paralyze her, rather the opposite. It is impossible to describe the raw and warm irreverence of her writing. Her characters resemble each other but perhaps they would not agree, because they do not want to resemble anyone and at the same time they fervently wish - sometimes at any cost - to participate in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8420455717
• ISBN13: 9788420455716
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.4"