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Toda la vida / For a Lifetime

9786073142595

Toda la vida / For a Lifetime

  • ISBN 13:

    9786073142595

  • ISBN 10:

    6073142595

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 06/28/2016
  • Publisher: Literatura Random House
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Summary

Recibir y callar la confesión de un crimen pasional nos vuelve su cómplice?¿Podemos escapar al peso del pasado?¿Somos los protagonistas de nuestro destino o simples comparsas?

Esta y otras preguntas nos plantea esta emblemática novela de elecciones extremas. Serrano, Felo, Pato y Liliana entrañan una red de silencios, traiciones y obsesiones cruzadas por los años que la muerte de un conocido desatará de nueva cuenta. Fábula sin moraleja sobre los abismos del amor fatal, la ambición y el delirio, Toda la vida es también un recorrido nostálgico por los territorios perdidos de la vida bohemia de la ciudad de México, una indagación literaria sobre cómo se escriben las novelas y un recordatorio de la podrida relación entre la policía y la política en el México del viejo régimen.

Después del éxito de Adiós a los padres, la celebrada novela autobiográfica de Héctor Aguilar Camín, Toda la vida marca su regreso a la ficción en estado puro donde las palabras trabajan al servicio de una perturbadora historia de amor, celos y poder que no dejará indiferente a ningún lector.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Does hearing and keeping silent a confession of a crime of passion make us an accomplice? Can we escape the weight of the past? Are we the protagonists of our own destiny or simple puppets?

These and other questions await us in this emblematic novel of extreme choices. Serrano, Felo, Pato, and Liliana are involved in a tangled web of silence, betrayals, and conflicting obsessions that is unraveled by the death of a mutual acquaintance. A moral-less fable about the abysses of fatal love, ambition, and delusions, For a Lifetime is also a nostalgic tour through the lost terrain of bohemian life in Mexico City, a literary inquiry about how novels are written, and a reminder of the rotten relationship between the police and politics in the Mexico of the old regime.

After the success of Adiós a los padres, Héctor Aguilar Camín's celebrated autobiographical novel, For a Lifetime marks his return to pure fiction where words paint an unsettling story of love, jealousy, and power that will not leave any reader indifferent.

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