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El mundo de afuera - Spanish Edition
Author: Jorge Franco

PREMIO ALFAGUARA 2014 El mundo de afuera transcurre en Medellín. Allí, el tiempo viene envuelto en una neblina, y las voces parecen silbidos que se pierden entre las ramas. Una especie de castillo se atisba en las frondosas afueras y de una puerta sale corriendo una niña rubia. Unos ojos miran cautivados esa presencia insólita y la niña se pierd... more »e en el bosque.En 1971, el padre de esa niña, don Diego, ha sido secuestrado. El Mono es el cabecilla de los maleantes, cuya intención es pedir un rescate millonario a la familia. El Mono tiene otras razones que las económicas para secuestrar a don Diego: la obsesión amorosa por la hija de este, Isolda, una princesa rubia a quien el padre, amante de la ópera de Wagner, mantiene encerrada en el castillo para preservar su pureza y evitar el contagio con el mundo sucio que les rodea. Don Diego es germanófilo y se ha casado con Dita, una mujer alemana que dejó el Berlín nazi para vivir en la copia del castillo de La Rochefoucauld que su marido ha levantado en Medellín. Desde muy pequeña, Isolda ha tomado la costumbre de escapar al bosque, donde antes jugaba con conejos fantásticos que le tejían peinados, mientras el Mono la admiraba encaramado en los árboles. Una breve y hasta cierto punto sencilla novela sobre el amor y la muerte, poética y detallista, con un sobresaliente manejo de la tensión, y que, incorporando técnicas cinematográficas como el flashback y la narración paralela, también bebe de fuentes como el cuento folclórico o la crónica de sucesos. English Description:The Outside World takes place in Medellín. There, time is wrapped in a mist, and voices seem like whistles that get lost among tree branches. A castle-like structure stands watch in the overgrown outskirts of the city, and a blond girl runs out the door. Eyes watch, captivated by this unusual presence, and the girl disappears into the forest.It is 1971, and this girl s father, don Diego, has been kidnapped. El Mono is the leader of the crime ring, whose intention is to demand a million-dollar ransom from the family. El Mono has reasons aside from economics to kidnap don Diego: a romantic obsession with the man s daughter, Isolda, a blonde princess whose father, a devotee of Wagner s operas, has kept her locked in the castle to preserve her purity and avoid sullying her with the crude outside world that surrounds them. Don Diego, a Germanophile, is married to Dita, a German woman who left Nazi Berlin to live in the replica of La Rouchefoucauld castle that her husband has built in Medellin. Since she was little, Isolda has escaped into the woods, where she played with imaginary rabbits, while El Mono would watch her, hidden in the trees. Short and uncomplicated, this novel about love and death is both poetic and vivid, with a masterful use of tension, incorporation of cinematographic techniques such as flashback and parallel narration, and the echoes of both folkloric tales and news blotters.

ISBN-13: 9781622639403
ISBN-10: 1622639405
Publication Date: 6/2/2014
Pages: 250
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Publisher: Alfaguara
Book Type: Paperback
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