{"product_id":"monstruos-marinos-sea-monsters","title":"Monstruos marinos \/ Sea Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUn trabajo abrasador e hipn\u0026amp;oacute;tico; sorprendente historia de encantamiento y desilusi\u0026amp;oacute;n. -Laura Esquivel, autora del bestseller \u003ci\u003eComo agua para chocolate.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp;laquo;Aridjis es muy h\u0026amp;aacute;bil al conjurar ese embeleso adolescente que captura el significado debajo de cada superficie. Como la escritura de Sebald o Cusk, la suya ronda sus propias omisiones... La imagen del naufragio se avecina amenazante para Aridjis; se convierte en una lente muy \u0026amp;uacute;til para ver este libro aut\u0026amp;oacute;nomo, inescrutable y extra\u0026amp;ntilde;amente cautivador como un objeto rescatado que quiere volver al mar.\u0026amp;raquo; -Katy Waldman, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUna tarde de oto\u0026amp;ntilde;o en la Ciudad de M\u0026amp;eacute;xico, Luisa, de diecisiete a\u0026amp;ntilde;os, no regresa a casa. En su lugar, aborda un cami\u0026amp;oacute;n a la costa del Pac\u0026amp;iacute;fico con Tom\u0026amp;aacute;s, un muchacho al que apenas conoce. \u0026amp;Eacute;l parece representar todo lo que le falta a su vida: temeridad, impulso e independencia. Y Tom\u0026amp;aacute;s tambi\u0026amp;eacute;n puede ayudarla a satisfacer una extra\u0026amp;ntilde;a obsesi\u0026amp;oacute;n: encontrar a la compa\u0026amp;ntilde;\u0026amp;iacute;a de enanos ucranianos. Seg\u0026amp;uacute;n los reportes del peri\u0026amp;oacute;dico, los enanos escaparon recientemente de un circo sovi\u0026amp;eacute;tico durante una gira por M\u0026amp;eacute;xico. Los imaginados destinos de estos artistas circenses llenan los surrealistas sue\u0026amp;ntilde;os de Luisa cuando se instala en una comunidad playera de Oaxaca. Rodeada de hippies, nudistas, buscadores de tesoros y exc\u0026amp;eacute;ntricos contadores de historias, ella busca a alguien, a quien sea, que le prometa que sin importar nada, seguir\u0026amp;aacute; siendo un misterio. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTodo esto es una misi\u0026amp;oacute;n m\u0026amp;aacute;s f\u0026amp;aacute;cil de imaginar que de lograr. Mientras pasea por la orilla del mar y visita el bar local, Luisa comienza a desaparecer peligrosamente de las vidas de los desconocidos de Zipolite, la Playa de los muertos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Aridjis is deft at conjuring the teenage swooniness that apprehends meaning below every surface. Like Sebald\u0026amp;rsquo;s or Cusk\u0026amp;rsquo;s, her haunted writing patrols its own omissions . . . The figure of the shipwreck looms large for Aridjis. It becomes a useful lens through which to see this book, which is self-contained, inscrutable, and weirdly captivating, like a salvaged object that wants to return to the sea.\" ―Katy Waldman, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tom\u0026amp;aacute;s, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking―recklessness, impulse, independence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tom\u0026amp;aacute;s may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa\u0026amp;rsquo;s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will \u0026amp;ldquo;promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery.\u0026amp;rdquo; It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the \u0026amp;ldquo;Beach of the Dead.\u0026amp;rdquo;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH Grupo Editorial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49732023681251,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9786073189521","price":118.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9786073189521.jpg?v=1789371930","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/monstruos-marinos-sea-monsters","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}