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Ava en la noche / Ava in the Night

9788420435633

Ava en la noche / Ava in the Night

  • ISBN 13:

    9788420435633

  • ISBN 10:

    8420435635

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 08/18/2020
  • Publisher: Alfaguara
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Summary

La nueva novela de Manuel Vicent: Una historia de noches brillantes de cine y glamour a las que siguen los días grises de la dictadura franquista.
 
«Perseguía dos sombras: la de Ava Gardner y la del asesino José María Jarabo. La búsqueda de la belleza inasequible abrazada a la maldad.»
 
David, un joven que ha pasado los primeros años de su vida respirando el aire del Mediterráneo, abandona su ciudad para establecerse en Madrid y cumplir un sueño: conocer a Ava Gardner y convertirse en director de cine. A su llegada se presenta en la Escuela de Cinematografía decidido a pasar las pruebas de acceso.
 
Son los primeros años sesenta y en España todo un mundo relacionado con el arte, el cine y la literatura disfruta noches llenas de glamour, divertidas y extraordinariamente libres. Noches de cine a las que siguen días en que la realidad del país se ahoga cubierta por la pátina oscura y represiva de la dictadura franquista.
 
Ficción y realidad se entrecruzan en esta novela ambientada en la reciente historia de España. Con su maestría habitual, Manuel Vicent retrata en Ava en la noche la inestable frontera entre un tiempo oscuro y en declive y otro que, con los primeros vientos de cambio, ya empieza a asomar en el horizonte.

ENGLISH DESCRIPCION

Manuel Vicent's new novel: A story of the brilliant nights of cinema and glamor followed by the gray days of the Franco dictatorship.
 
"I was chasing two shadows: Ava Gardner's and the murderer José María Jarabo's. The search for unaffordable beauty embraced by evil."
 
David, a young man who has spent the first part of his life breathing the Mediterranean air, leaves his city to settle in Madrid and fulfill a dream: to meet Ava Gardner and become a film director. Upon arrival, he went to the School of Cinematography determined to pass the entrance exams.
 
It's the early sixties in Spain a whole world related to art, cinema, and literature enjoys glamorous, fun, and extraordinarily free nights. Movie nights followed by days where the reality of the country is drowning covered by the dark and repressive veneer of the Franco dictatorship.
 
Fiction and reality intersect in this novel set in the recent history of Spain. With his usual mastery, Manuel Vicent paints in Ava at Night the volatile border between a dark and declining time and another that, with the first winds of change, is already looming on the horizon.

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