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¿Qué me quería decir? ¿Que lo ayudara a vivir?

¿O que lo ayudara a morir?.

Fernando, un escritor colombiano que vive en México, vuelve a su patria de nacimiento para acompañar en sus últimos días a su hermano Darío, enfermo de sida. Darío se ha instalado en la casa familiar.

Entre la abundancia de recuerdos sobresalen los dedicados a su padre que, junto a su hermano Darío, es el único miembro de la familia a quien Fernando quiere.

«Cuando Carlos salió del cuarto me acerqué a la cama, me senté a su lado y me incliné sobre él: sus ojos suplicantes se cruzaron con los míos por última vez. ¿Qué me quería decir? ¿Que lo ayudara a vivir? ¿O que lo ayudara a morir? A vivir, por supuesto, él nunca quiso morirse».

Metáfora de la muerte, conciliábulo de espectros y fantasmas, El desbarrancadero cuenta el fin de una casa en medio de un país que se desmorona. Si no la vida del autor, por lo menos sus libros desembocan con esta obra desolada y conmovedora en el inexorable final.

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Fernando returns home after a prolonged absence to attend to his most beloved brother, Dario, an AIDS patient whose health is slowly deteriorating owing to his alcohol and marijuana use. Vallejo indulges in digressions into past memories that they both share, which include endless adolescent partying and homosexual love affairs. La Muerte (Death), the character around whom the narrative ultimately revolves, appears throughout, touching different members of Vallejo's family and finally becoming his worst enemy.
About the Author: Fernando Vallejo nació en Medellín, Colombia. Estudió filosofía y letras en universidades de Bogotá y dirección de cine en el Centro Experimental de Cinematografía de Roma. Ha vivido gran parte de su vida en México, donde ha dirigido tres películas y escrito la totalidad de sus libros, algunos de los cuales han sido traducidos a múltiples idiomas. El gran amor de su vida son los animales, y su única causa es su defensa. Es autor de El río del tiempo (1999), pentalogía compuesta por Los días azules (1985), El fuego secreto (1987), Los caminos a Roma (1988), Años de indulgencia (1989), y Entre fantasmas (Alfaguara, 1993), además de las novelas La Virgen de los sicarios (Alfaguara, 1994), El desbarrancadero (Alfaguara, 2001, Premio Rómulo Gallegos 2003), La rambla paralela (Alfaguara, 2002), Mi hermano el Alcalde (Alfaguara, 2004), El don de la vida (Alfaguara, 2010), Casablanca la bella (Alfaguara, 2013) y ¡Llegaron! (Alfaguara, 2015). También ha escrito biografías y los ensayos La tautología darwinista y otros ensayos (Taurus, 2002), Manualito de imposturología física (Taurus, 2005) y La puta de Babilonia (2007). Sus columnas periodísticas, discursos y conferencias están recopilados en Perorata (Alfaguara, 2013).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9786073159180
  • Publisher: Debolsillo
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 186 gr
  • ISBN-10: 6073159188
  • Publisher Date: 27 Mar 2018
  • Height: 193 mm
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 127 mm

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