Search results for ""Author Eloy Urroz""

Una hermosa mañana del 22 de abril de 1937, a bordo del viejo trasatlántico Habana, entraron al puerto de Southampton tres mil ochocientos niños vascos..En febrero de 1938, Luis Cernuda se exilia en Inglaterra, donde se dedica a ayudar a los pequeños refugiados que habían recibido asilo allí tras la caída de Bilbao a manos de las tropas franquistas. Muchos años después, un joven cineasta mexicano afincado en Nueva York recibe un mensaje que cambiará su vida y la unirá desde entonces a la de Cernuda.La familia interrumpida, como se titula la única obra teatral que escribió Cernuda, es una intrigante novela sobre secretos familiares, afinidades electivas, la paternidad, el exilio y la búsqueda del propio camino.

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When the poet Luis Cernuda flees Spain in February of 1938, he has no idea that he will never again set foot on his native land. In exile in England, his former lover finds him a disheartening job that only intensifies his feelings of bitterness and despair: caring for 3,800 refugee children who have also fled to England after the city of Bilbao fell to Franco’s army. Seventy years later, a young Mexican filmmaker living in New York receives a mysterious email that throws his life into complete disarray and forever links him to the famous Spanish poet. The Family Interrupted (the title of Cernuda’s only play, which had gone missing for fifty years until Octavio Paz found it in a shoe box in his mother’s house) is, as Jorge Volpi once said, “A beautiful example of two decanting narratives constructed with the precision and accuracy of a watchmaker. From the opening lines, the characters’ destiny seems—almost—preordained.”

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A dazzling literary card game: an investigation into how and why we fall into or out of love--with a person or a book.

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One of the most remarkable books of contemporary Mexican literature, The Obstacles is the story of young writers coming of age in a world dominated entirely by their own fictions. It tells, in alternating chapters, the stories of two teenagers, Ricardo and Elias, who are characters in each others' novels.Blurring our notions of reality and fiction, Eloy Urroz takes the reader into a world where characters invent characters and challenge their creators. And the book's conclusion--in which a surprising connection between Ricardo and Elias is revealed--shows that not even fiction can be controlled in a world of such incredible unpredictability.

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