Guia Del Golfo

Gran directorio de libros en multiples formatos EPUB, PDF, MOBI

Where Was the Angel Going?

Sinopsis del Libro

Libro Where Was the Angel Going?

‘Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ‘People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ‘punishment’ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech Republic), Martin, like the survivor of a shipwreck, strives to shore up his vital resources amidst the billows of an inimical world, which constantly advance and threaten to wash away everything he holds dear. Where was the Angel Going? is a novel made up of forty-six linked stories. As always, Balabán’s prose is so vivid that the reader can practically taste the ‘honey and dust,’ which are the characteristic flavours of Ostrava. And yet, in its lyrical message of love and friendship as basic human needs no less critical than air and water, Where was the Angel Going is nonetheless an eminently universal novel. Everyone will find him or herself in these pages, as we are all of us descended from that first pair of exiles, Adam and Eve. Translation of this book was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

Ficha del Libro

Total de páginas 258

Autor:

  • Jan Balaban

Categoría:

Formatos Disponibles:

PDF, EPUB, MOBI

Descargar Libro

Valoración

Popular

5.0

83 Valoraciones Totales


Otros libros de Ficción

La herencia de los Lemesurier

Libro La herencia de los Lemesurier

Empleando sus células grises, Poirot necesitará muy poco tiempo para descubrir el misterio que se oculta tras la maldición de la familia Lemesurier, según la cual todos los primogénitos mueren antes de heredar la fortuna familiar. Gracias al detective belga y a Hasting, su fiel compañero, el pequeño Ronald tendrá una oportunidad de salir ileso.

Victoria

Libro Victoria

Timid, eleven-year-old Dylis Rattenbury, afraid to cross the street without holding someone's hand, idolizes bold, free-spirited, indifferent Victoria Corcoran. When both are sent to boarding school, Dylis is miserable at being separated from her parents, while Victoria seems only concerned that boarding school does not provide room service. With their two roommates she forms a secret club, ostensibly to ward off the "evil forces" in the school, but privately to help get herself expelled. "A boarding school story far from the old formula junior novel."—Children's Books "An unusual and...

La isla de cristal

Libro La isla de cristal

Esmídea es el mundo donde yacen Cristalia, Atlania y otras patrias, unidas por idioma, religión y cultura. En medio de este entorno paradisíaco de anchos mares, donde brilla la esmeralda y crecen las orquídeas, el sol manifiesta su esplendor. Pero el apetito tiránico, que acecha la libertad adondequiera, ha sometido a sus naturales a los juegos de poder de duros opresores. Con promesas de libertad y democracia, cada tirano obtuvo el apoyo de su pueblo, para luego, una vez en el poder, traicionarlo e imponerle un yugo peor que el anterior, del cual prometió liberarlo. En tal escenario,...

Últimos Libros



Últimas Búsquedas


Categorías Destacadas