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MASSAUA: UNA AVENTURA EN EL MAR ROJONOVELA HISTÓRICA DE VIAJES Y AVENTURA QUE ENGANCHA DESDE LA PRIMERA PÁGINA

En 1934, un grupo de buzos y marinos de la isla de Margarita, Venezuela, fueron contratados para pescar perlas en la India y quedaron abandonados a su suerte en MASSAUA, puerto en el cuerno africano de la colonia italiana de Eritrea, en la antesala de la II Guerra Ítalo-Abisinia.

En ese entorno, un joven aprendiz busca su destino.

Quería el respeto que da el dinero.
Una sola perla de Ceilán bastaría para cumplir sus anhelos.
Ahora, apenas le resta sobrevivir.

Una historia de angustias, engaño, ambición, traición; pero también de amor, romance, amistad, solidaridad, honestidad, voluntad inquebrantable de gente capaz de sobreponerse a las peores circunstancias, en tiempos de dictaduras, nacionalismos, guerras y entreguerras.

Un historia real que merece conocerse.

De MASSAUA se ha dicho:

Arnoldo Rosas parte de un hecho real para estructurar una historia formidable que, como una matrioska, contiene otras narraciones, las particulares, las que pertenecen a cada personaje. En Massaua se percibe el trabajo riguroso del autor, la investigación fundamentada, incluso con el escaso material directamente relacionado con el hecho histórico. Sin embargo, la lectura da cuenta de una interpretación magistral, que demuestra mediante argumentos sólidos y fabulaciones llenas de ocurrencias, que el episodio no es leyenda, sino un acontecimiento que pertenece a la historia. Lesbia Quintero. La linterna literaria.


Arnoldo Rosas sombrea la realidad con ficción para darle relieve a una historia que mantiene en vilo (...) La fuerza de la narración recae en un lenguaje sencillo y vivaz, un excelente vehículo para transmitir emociones intensas y dejar un recuerdo duradero en el lector. María Dubón. Dubon.es


Massaua es una historia que convence, no tanto por estar basada en hechos reales, lo cual ya le da un cariz de verosimilitud importante, sino porque dentro de su mundo ficcional y narrativo, se mezclan elementos que atrapan la lectura de principio a fin. Podemos hablar de Massaua como una novela histórica, pero también como un texto de aventura, de viaje o de crónica. Me resultó imposible no hacer el paralelismo entre Ismael, el entrañable personaje de la novela de Melville, Moby Dick, con el personaje principal que lleva el hilo conductor de Massaua, "el roblero" ambos inexpertos, ambos un tanto timoratos pero deseosos ante la idea de un primer viaje en barco y sus nulos conocimientos al respecto, el primero como pescador de ballenas, y el segundo, como buzo pescador de ostras. Jason Maldonado. Palabras y escombros.

Entretenida y bien documentada, MASSAUA fue considerada una de las cinco mejores novelas publicadas en Venezuela durante 2012, según el jurado del Premio de la Crítica a la Novela del año.

Compre y lea hoy MASSAUA, embárquese con estos intrépidos buzos en vapores y trenes, desde el Caribe hasta África, y viva desde ya una emocionante y entretenida historia de aventuras.


About the Author: ARNOLDO ROSAS (Porlamar, Venezuela 1960).-Perteneció al Taller de Narrativa del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos "Rómulo Gallegos" (1981-1982). Sus trabajos han merecido diversos premios y reconocimientos, estando algunos de ellos presentes en importantes antologías de narrativa venezolana. Ha publicado los libros de relatos Para Enterrar al Puerto, Olvídate del Tango, La Muerte No Mata a Nadie y De amores y domicilios; la novela corta Igual y las novelas Nombre de Mujer, Uno se Acostumbra y Massaua.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781481134972
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 442
  • Series Title: Spanish
  • Weight: 693 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1481134973
  • Publisher Date: 26 Aug 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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