La encomiendaLa encomienda
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Book, 2022
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"Una inquietante novela sobre la incertidumbre, los recuerdos, los miedos, la soledad, las relaciones familiares y los anhelos de futuro. La narradora de estas páginas vive a cinco mil kilómetros de su país natal, trabaja para una agencia de publicidad, quiere tramitar una beca para irse a escribir a Holanda y mantiene periódicas videoconferencias con su hermana. Esta le manda encomiendas, paquetes que incluyen comida, dibujos de sus sobrinos y de vez en cuando alguna sorpresa, como una vieja fotografía. A menudo la comida llega podrida. Una serie de figuras y acontecimientos irán dejando entrever las fisuras que se abren en la cotidianeidad de la protagonista: la recepción de una enorme caja difícil de abrir, una gata que se pasea por el edificio en el que vive, los vecinos que se ausentan y los que llaman a su puerta, el hijo de una vecina, las idas y venidas de su novio, un vagabundo... Y es que, como ella misma dice: Con qué rapidez se hace pedazos la cáscara de una rutina. Cualquier rutina, por sólida que sea, es arrasada por lo imprevisto. Con mano maestra y notable economía de medios, Margarita García Robayo conduce al lector por el laberinto de su protagonista y narradora en esta inquietante novela que habla de incertidumbre, recuerdos, miedos, soledad, relaciones familiares, perspectivas de maternidad y anhelos de futuro. Un libro de contenida intensidad, repleto de atisbos m̀s que de certezas, que confirma a la autora como una de las voces de la actual narrativa latinoamericana"--Provided by publisher.
A disturbing novel about uncertainty, memories, fears, loneliness, family relationships and longing for the future. The narrator of these pages lives five thousand kilometers from her native country, works for an advertising agency, wants to apply for a scholarship to go to the Netherlands to write, and holds regular videoconferences with her sister. She sends her parcels, packages that include food, drawings of her nephews and from time to time a surprise, like an old photograph. Often the food arrives rotten. A series of figures and events will reveal the fissures that open up in the protagonist's daily life: receiving a huge box that is difficult to open, a cat that walks around the building in which she lives, the neighbors who are absent and those who knock on her door, the son of a neighbour, the comings and goings of her boyfriend, a homeless man... And, as she herself says: How quickly the shell of a routine falls apart. Any routine, however solid it may be, is devastated by the unforeseen. With a master hand and remarkable economy of means, Margarita García Robayo leads the reader through the labyrinth of her protagonist and narrator in this disturbing novel that speaks of uncertainty, memories, fears, loneliness, family relationships, prospects for motherhood, and longings for the future. A book of contained intensity, full of glimpses more than certainties, which confirms the author as one of the voices of the current Latin American narrative.
A disturbing novel about uncertainty, memories, fears, loneliness, family relationships and longing for the future. The narrator of these pages lives five thousand kilometers from her native country, works for an advertising agency, wants to apply for a scholarship to go to the Netherlands to write, and holds regular videoconferences with her sister. She sends her parcels, packages that include food, drawings of her nephews and from time to time a surprise, like an old photograph. Often the food arrives rotten. A series of figures and events will reveal the fissures that open up in the protagonist's daily life: receiving a huge box that is difficult to open, a cat that walks around the building in which she lives, the neighbors who are absent and those who knock on her door, the son of a neighbour, the comings and goings of her boyfriend, a homeless man... And, as she herself says: How quickly the shell of a routine falls apart. Any routine, however solid it may be, is devastated by the unforeseen. With a master hand and remarkable economy of means, Margarita García Robayo leads the reader through the labyrinth of her protagonist and narrator in this disturbing novel that speaks of uncertainty, memories, fears, loneliness, family relationships, prospects for motherhood, and longings for the future. A book of contained intensity, full of glimpses more than certainties, which confirms the author as one of the voices of the current Latin American narrative.
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