Overview
Padre e hijo viven en un barrio oscuro, sin faroles, a orillas del mar. Los acorralan la pobreza y la soledad, pero se tienen el uno al otro, con un amor tan profundo que parece bastar.
«En esta novela eléctrica y excéntrica, llena de sorpresas tan maravillosas como coherentes, Giuseppe Caputo construye una estética de lo que es a la vez ausente y concreto: de las cosas sin mundo y de los mundos que se acaban. Funda una ciudad sobre leyes poéticas, bajo una noche brillante y al borde de un mar triste como la promesa de la felicidad. Al mirar la profundidad de la pérdida, encuentra el sentido más íntimo de la confianza. La novedad de su narrativa y la verdad de su intuición desorbitarán al lector. A mí me deslumbraron.» —Carolina Sanín
«Un mundo huérfano es una novela de ruptura, provocadora tanto en el tratamiento de la materia narrativa como en el manejo del lenguaje, tan preciso y contundente. Detrás de su algarabía y libertinaje yace un profundo sedimento de tristeza, la sensación de abandono y vulnerabilidad en una tierra carcomida por las fuerzas de la muerte. Pero sorteando esos extremos, Caputo trata a sus personajes con compasión y hasta ternura. Una obra que conmoverá al lector.» —Horacio Castellanos Moya
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Father and son live in a dark, streetlight-less neighborhood by the sea. Poverty and loneliness beset them, but they have each other, with a love so deep that it seems to be enough.
"In this electric and eccentric novel, full of surprises as wonderful as they are coherent, Giuseppe Caputo constructs an aesthetic of what is at once absent and concrete: of things without a world and of worlds that are coming to an end. He founds a city on poetic laws, under a brilliant night, and on the edge of a sea as sad as the promise of happiness. In gazing into the depths of loss, he finds the most intimate meaning of trust. The novelty of his narrative and the truth of his intuition will throw the reader off course. They dazzled me." —Carolina Sanín
"An Orphaned World is a novel of rupture, provocative both in its treatment of the narrative material and in its handling of language, which is so precise and forceful. Behind its revelry and debauchery lies a deep sediment of sadness, the feeling of abandonment and vulnerability in a land gnawed away by the forces of death. But navigating these extremes, Caputo treats his characters with compassion and even tenderness. A work that will move the reader." —Horacio Castellanos Moya
«En esta novela eléctrica y excéntrica, llena de sorpresas tan maravillosas como coherentes, Giuseppe Caputo construye una estética de lo que es a la vez ausente y concreto: de las cosas sin mundo y de los mundos que se acaban. Funda una ciudad sobre leyes poéticas, bajo una noche brillante y al borde de un mar triste como la promesa de la felicidad. Al mirar la profundidad de la pérdida, encuentra el sentido más íntimo de la confianza. La novedad de su narrativa y la verdad de su intuición desorbitarán al lector. A mí me deslumbraron.» —Carolina Sanín
«Un mundo huérfano es una novela de ruptura, provocadora tanto en el tratamiento de la materia narrativa como en el manejo del lenguaje, tan preciso y contundente. Detrás de su algarabía y libertinaje yace un profundo sedimento de tristeza, la sensación de abandono y vulnerabilidad en una tierra carcomida por las fuerzas de la muerte. Pero sorteando esos extremos, Caputo trata a sus personajes con compasión y hasta ternura. Una obra que conmoverá al lector.» —Horacio Castellanos Moya
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Father and son live in a dark, streetlight-less neighborhood by the sea. Poverty and loneliness beset them, but they have each other, with a love so deep that it seems to be enough.
"In this electric and eccentric novel, full of surprises as wonderful as they are coherent, Giuseppe Caputo constructs an aesthetic of what is at once absent and concrete: of things without a world and of worlds that are coming to an end. He founds a city on poetic laws, under a brilliant night, and on the edge of a sea as sad as the promise of happiness. In gazing into the depths of loss, he finds the most intimate meaning of trust. The novelty of his narrative and the truth of his intuition will throw the reader off course. They dazzled me." —Carolina Sanín
"An Orphaned World is a novel of rupture, provocative both in its treatment of the narrative material and in its handling of language, which is so precise and forceful. Behind its revelry and debauchery lies a deep sediment of sadness, the feeling of abandonment and vulnerability in a land gnawed away by the forces of death. But navigating these extremes, Caputo treats his characters with compassion and even tenderness. A work that will move the reader." —Horacio Castellanos Moya
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