{"product_id":"umami-spanish-edition","title":"Umami (Spanish Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUmami \u003c\/i\u003ees el debut literario de Laia Jufresa y Publishers Weekly ya lo considera uno de los \u003ci\u003ehot books\u003c\/i\u003e del 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAna quiere plantar una milpa en su traspatio, en pleno Distrito Federal. Pero en la tierra hay altos contenidos de plomo y la casa donde vive est\u0026amp;aacute; plagada de ausencias. Su hermana muri\u0026amp;oacute;, sus pap\u0026amp;aacute;s est\u0026amp;aacute;n de luto y sus hermanos de campamento; su \u0026amp;uacute;nica amiga se fue a buscar a quien la abandon\u0026amp;oacute; cuatro a\u0026amp;ntilde;os atr\u0026amp;aacute;s. Menos mal que queda Alfonso. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlfonso es un antrop\u0026amp;oacute;logo especializado en alimentaci\u0026amp;oacute;n prehisp\u0026amp;aacute;nica. Es viudo y due\u0026amp;ntilde;o de la peque\u0026amp;ntilde;a urbanizaci\u0026amp;oacute;n Campanario. \u0026amp;Eacute;l mismo la dise\u0026amp;ntilde;\u0026amp;oacute; a partir de un esquema de la lengua humana y dio a las casas el nombre de cada uno de los cinco sabores que percibimos: Dulce, Salado, Amargo, \u0026amp;Aacute;cido y Umami.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEn duelo, los habitantes de la comunidad desear\u0026amp;iacute;an echar el tiempo atr\u0026amp;aacute;s. Tejida al rev\u0026amp;eacute;s, esta novela se lo permite. Mientras Ana remueve la tierra y clava las semillas, sus vecinos hurgan en el pasado. Pero el traspatio de la memoria est\u0026amp;aacute; minado con preguntas: \u0026amp;iquest;qui\u0026amp;eacute;n fue mi mujer? \u0026amp;iquest;Por qu\u0026amp;eacute; se fue mi mam\u0026amp;aacute;? Y, \u0026amp;iquest;c\u0026amp;oacute;mo es posible que se ahogara una ni\u0026amp;ntilde;a que sab\u0026amp;iacute;a nadar?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Best Translated Fiction Book Award, 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;ldquo;Ms. Jufresa: Where the f*#! did you learn to tell a story so well?\u0026amp;rdquo; \u0026amp;mdash;\u0026amp;Aacute;lvaro Enrigue, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eSudden Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs heard on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt started with a drowning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old who spends her days buried in Agatha Christie novels to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the summer she decides to plant a \u003ci\u003emilpa\u003c\/i\u003e in her backyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. The ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge \u0026amp;mdash; Who was my wife? Why did my Mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn prose that is dazzlingly inventive, funny and tender, Laia Jufresa immerses us in the troubled lives of her narrators, deftly unpicking their stories to offer a darkly comic portrait of contemporary Mexico, as whimsical as it is heart-wrenching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH Grupo Editorial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49740826247395,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9788439730491","price":137.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/376f4870cd71-9788439730491.jpg?v=1789577069","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/umami-spanish-edition","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}