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Author: Alberto Barrera Tyszka ,
Rosalind Harvey
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 20.80cm
Weight: 0.311kg
ISBN: 9780857056115
ISBN 10: 0857056115
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 08 August 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Why is Alberto Barrera Tyzska's novel so good? Because, from the first phrase to the last, he keeps us interested, curious, and concerned for what will happen. Because this flair of his reveals a great deal of cultivation, study, and insight into the art of creating suspense. Because his ability to create a redoubtable literary space, which we inevitably associate with the International Sanatorium Berghof in The Magic Mountain, Leopold Bloom's Dublin, or mad Ahab's Pequod, is breathtaking. * El Nacional. * Barrera's prose is clear, rousing, borne of authenticity when it comes to expressing the contradictions of human beings. * La Vanguardia. * His devilish ability to bring together distinct storylines that converge in the apotheosis of a brilliant finale is proof of Barrera's awareness of the finer points of deft and intelligent writing. * El Periodico. * The best novel about charisma I've read in a long time. Everything it tells us rings true. * Babelia * The Venezuelan Ian McEwan. -- Booktrust. Tyszka is a perceptive, original writer. -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times. *
Tyszka is a perceptive, original writer. - Irish Times. The Venezuelan Ian McEwan. The best novel about charisma I've read in a long time. Everything it tells us rings true. - Babelia His devilish ability to bring together distinct storylines that converge in the apotheosis of a brilliant finale is proof of Barrera's awareness of the finer points of deft and intelligent writing. - El Periodico. Barrera's prose is clear, rousing, borne of authenticity when it comes to expressing the contradictions of human beings. - La Vanguardia. Why is Alberto Barrera Tyzska's novel so good? Because, from the first phrase to the last, he keeps us interested, curious, and concerned for what will happen. Because this flair of his reveals a great deal of cultivation, study, and insight into the art of creating suspense. Because his ability to create a redoubtable literary space, which we inevitably associate with the International Sanatorium Berghof in The Magic Mountain, Leopold Bloom's Dublin, or mad Ahab's Pequod, is breathtaking. - El Nacional.
Author Information
Alberto Barrera Tyszka, poet and novelist, is well known in Venezuela for his Sunday column in the newspaper El Nacional. He co-wrote the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Hugo Chavez (2007), the first biography of the Venezuelan president. His novel The Sickness won the prestigious Herralde Prize and was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Homeland or Death was the winner of the Tusquets Prize.
