El comensal / The Dinner Guest

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Premio Euskadi de Literatura en castellano.

Finalista del Man Booker International Prize.

Una novela autobiográfica en la que la autora trata de comprender su relación con la muerte y la familia a través del análisis de dos sucesos: el asesinato de su abuelo a manos de ETA y el fallecimiento de su madre.

«Una novela cuya atmósfera nos proporciona un alivio semejante al que siente un pez devuelto al agua después de haber sido capturado. [...] Leyéndola se asiste una vez más a ese misterio por el que la vida de otro, que poco o nada tiene que ver con la tuya, deviene en una cuestión de orden personal. Como si más que una novela, se tratara de una carta dirigida a ti.» —Juan José Millás 

La muerte es un acontecimiento de primer orden. Cuando la parca se lleva a un ser querido heredamos lo que quedó sin resolver, y el dolor, o la liberación, que acarrea el deceso se extiende en el tiempo hasta que el vivo asume no sólo la desaparición del otro, sino también parte de la suya propia en la medida en que estamos hechos de retazos de los demás.

En esta novela autobiográfica Gabriela Ybarra trata de comprender su relación con la muerte y la familia a través del análisis de dos sucesos: el asesinato de su abuelo en 1977 a manos de ETA y el fallecimiento de su madre en 2011 por un cáncer. Así, la primera parte de El comensal es una reconstrucción libre (por tanto, no esconde la parte de ficción de toda memoria) del secuestro y posterior asesinato del empresario español Javier de Ybarra, quien también fue alcalde de Bilbao y presidente de la Diputación de Vizcaya durante el régimen franquista. Aunque esta muerte ha sacudido a todo el clan familiar (los padres de la protagonista tienen que abandonar el País Vasco y convivir con un escolta), no es hasta que la madre de la narradora enferma fatalmente que los duelos no hechos y las herencias políticas no asumidas (a veces por ignorancia) estallan.

El comensal es una novela importante por dos cosas: la narración de un conflicto histórico desde un lugar personal procurando la huida del victimismo y el reconocimiento de la importancia que tiene el hacer visible la muerte para asumirla. Acostumbrados como estamos a que los procesos de deterioro y fin de la vida se escondan, la novela sorprenderá por lo que tiene de reconciliación con la enfermedad, que aquí es relatada con luminosidad y sin puritanismo ni autocompasión.


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Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize

"A seamless blend of art, politics, and private life."—NPR

The Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra’s prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.

The story goes that in my family there’s an extra dinner guest at every meal. He’s invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present.

The first to vanish was my grandfather.

In 1977, three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra’s grandfather’s home, and pointed a gun at him in the shower. This was the last time his family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press, culminating in his murder. Ybarra first heard the story when she was eight, but it was only after her mother’s death, years later, that she felt the need to go deeper and discover more about her family’s past.

The Dinner Guest
is a novel with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events—the very public death of Ybarra’s grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela cares for her. Devastating and luminous, the book is an investigation, marking the arrival of a talented new voice in international fiction.

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Author:
Gabriela Ybarra
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Publisher:
PRH Grupo Editorial (May 24, 2022)
Language:
Spanish
ISBN-13:
9788439739203
ISBN-10:
8439739206
Weight:
8oz
Dimensions:
5.37" x 9.04" x 0.51"
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Country of Origin:
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