Overview
«Canto que emiten los pájaros: trino. Encadenamiento fatal de sucesos: destino.»
Una mujer combate la soledad haciendo crucigramas. Una familia acomodada se entera de que su hijo se ha hecho amigo del hijo de un narco. Un hombre sufre impotencia y acude a un inefable urólogo. Otro ve cómo su tranquila vida de jardinero se altera fortuitamente. Todo un pueblo es masacrado en Guatemala por un contingente del ejército al que habían convidado a un asado...
Los relatos de Ese día cayó en domingo giran en torno a cuatro temas fundamentales: la familia y el amor, la memoria —individual y colectiva—, la muerte y la vida cotidiana. Aquí están todas las claves de la narrativa del autor, considerado uno de los maestros del género en español: el humor, su preferencia por los protagonistas perdedores que encierran toda la dignidad del mundo y el compromiso irreductible con el ser humano.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
«Song emitted by birds: trill. Fatal chain of events: fate."
A woman tries to overcome loneliness by doing crossword puzzles. A wealthy family finds out that their son has befriended a drug dealer’s son. A man suffers from impotence and goes to an appalling urologist. Another man sees his quiet life as a gardener fortuitously altered. An entire town is massacred in Guatemala by an army soldier who had been invited to a barbecue...
The stories in That Day Fell on a Sunday revolve around four fundamental themes: family and love, memory —individual and collective—, death, and every-day life. In this great work we find all the keys to the author’s narrative style —considered one of the masters of the genre in Spanish language literature—: humor, his preference for down and out protagonists but who embody all the dignity in the world, and his ever-present commitment to the human being.
Una mujer combate la soledad haciendo crucigramas. Una familia acomodada se entera de que su hijo se ha hecho amigo del hijo de un narco. Un hombre sufre impotencia y acude a un inefable urólogo. Otro ve cómo su tranquila vida de jardinero se altera fortuitamente. Todo un pueblo es masacrado en Guatemala por un contingente del ejército al que habían convidado a un asado...
Los relatos de Ese día cayó en domingo giran en torno a cuatro temas fundamentales: la familia y el amor, la memoria —individual y colectiva—, la muerte y la vida cotidiana. Aquí están todas las claves de la narrativa del autor, considerado uno de los maestros del género en español: el humor, su preferencia por los protagonistas perdedores que encierran toda la dignidad del mundo y el compromiso irreductible con el ser humano.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
«Song emitted by birds: trill. Fatal chain of events: fate."
A woman tries to overcome loneliness by doing crossword puzzles. A wealthy family finds out that their son has befriended a drug dealer’s son. A man suffers from impotence and goes to an appalling urologist. Another man sees his quiet life as a gardener fortuitously altered. An entire town is massacred in Guatemala by an army soldier who had been invited to a barbecue...
The stories in That Day Fell on a Sunday revolve around four fundamental themes: family and love, memory —individual and collective—, death, and every-day life. In this great work we find all the keys to the author’s narrative style —considered one of the masters of the genre in Spanish language literature—: humor, his preference for down and out protagonists but who embody all the dignity in the world, and his ever-present commitment to the human being.
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