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Del autor de "El cartero de Neruda

Uno de los autores m s populares de Chile y Latinoam rica.
- Una prosa di fana, no desprovista de iron a y humor negro, de la mano de un maestro reconocido del g nero de la ficci n breve.

Este notable conjunto de once relatos est cruzado por el tr nsito de sus protagonistas a otros pa ses, unos obligados por el exilio, otros en la b squeda de nuevos horizontes econ micos, o tras una identidad propia o un lugar en el mundo.

A pesar de que las experiencias de los personajes son cotidianas, la pericia del narrador las hace trascender. En Borges se nos permite asistir con sorpresa y emoci n a la historia de un cr tico literario chileno, sumido en la melancol a, que viaja a Par s para alejarse de su peque a e inocua existencia; en Cuando cumplas veinti n a os , conocer las vicisitudes de un chilenito p ber al que se le informa intempestivamente que tiene que abandonar el pa s en que vive; y en Ef mera , ser testigo de la atracci n sexual que ejerce una fulgurante fot grafa madrile a. Todas historias fugaces, intensas en su acci n, en las que la figura femenina ocupa un lugar central.

Antonio Sk rmeta (1940)es uno de los autores chilenos m s le dos en todo el mundo. Con sus novelas y vol menes de relatos se ha consagrado entre los grandes narradores hispanoamericanos de la actualidad, traducido a m s de veinticinco idiomas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

2014 Chilean National Literary Prize

By the author of El cartero de Neruda Antonio Sk rmeta--2014 Chilean National Literary Prize--is one of the most popular authors in Chile and Latin America
Clear prose, not without irony and dark humor, by the hand of a renowned master in the genre of short fiction.

This notable collection of eleven tales is crossed by the journey of its protagonists to other countries, some forced by exile, others in the search for new economic horizons, or chasing an identity or a place in the world.

Despite the fact that the experiences of the characters are everyday, the narrator's skill makes them transcendental. In "Borges," he allows us to witness with surprise and emotion the story of a Chilean literary critic, immersed in melancholy, who travels to Paris to get away from his small, innocuous existence; in "When You Are Twenty-one Years Old," we learn of the difficulties of a Chilean teenager who is inopportunely informed that he must leave his country; in "Ephemeral," we are a witness to the sexual attraction of a stunning photographer from Madrid. They are all fleeting stories, intense in their action, featuring a female lead.

Antonio Sk rmeta (1940) is one of the most-read Chilean authors around the world. With his novels and volumes of stories, he has been renowned among the great modern Latin-American narrators, translated into more than twenty-five languages.