Overview
«La cuidadosa construcción de un deterioro que, aunque transcurra en un país específico, acaba por ser una metáfora distorsionada del espíritu de nuestro tiempo». -Del acta del Jurado
Los Esterházy, una pareja excéntrica sin un pasado claro, llegan a un pueblo de la costa argentina y comienzan a regentar un antiguo hotel. Estos dos seres (y sus dos hijos, una niña y un niño más inquietantes y enigmáticos que ellos) producen el efecto de una partícula enfermiza que se introduce en las grietas de una sociedad pequeña y arrasa con su dinámica cotidiana, aparentemente calma. La pareja resulta ser un amplificador de los prejuicios, los deseos ocultos, las supersticiones, los temores y la violencia larvada en muchos de los habitantes del pueblo.
Arderá el viento es la historia de una degradación, de un descascaramiento agónico que poco a poco deja a la vista las miserias del cuerpo social. Expuesta al influjo de los Esterházy, la extraña villa costera deja aflorar la oscuridad que circula por sus zonas subterráneas, como si los visitantes fueran una piedra de toque maligna que lograra sacar a la luz la verdadera naturaleza de los personajes.
Escrita en un estilo parco y de una rara intensidad, la novela es la cuidadosa construcción de un deterioro que, aunque transcurra en un país específico, acaba por ser una metáfora distorsionada del espíritu de nuestro tiempo.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Winning novel of the Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2025
"The carefully constructed narrative of a deterioration that, while unfolding in a specific country, ultimately serves as a distorted metaphor for the spirit of our times." —Statement from the Jury
The Esterházys, an eccentric couple with an unclear past, arrive in a coastal town in Argentina and take over the management of an old hotel. These two individuals (along with their two children—a girl and a boy even more unsettling and enigmatic than their parents) create the effect of a toxic speck infiltrating the cracks of a small community and disrupting its seemingly calm daily dynamics. The couple acts as an amplifier for the prejudices, hidden desires, superstitions, fears, and latent violence within many of the town’s inhabitants.
Arderá el viento /The Wind Will Blaze is the story of a slow unraveling and an agonizing peeling away that gradually reveals society’s miseries. Under the Esterházys’ influence, the strange coastal village slowly begins to expose the darkness flowing through its undercurrents, as if the new family was a malign pebble capable of bringing the true nature of its residents to light.
Written in a sober yet intensely evocative style, the novel is a meticulous depiction of a deterioration that, though rooted in a specific country, ultimately serves as a distorted metaphor for the spirit of our times.
This book title, Arderá el viento (Premio Alfaguara 2025) / The Wind Will Blaze, ISBN: 9798890984302, by Guillermo Saccomanno, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (May 20, 2025) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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