Name: Las Maldiciones (in Spanish)
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Author: Claudia Piñeiro
ISBN: 9788420429601

Type

Physical Book

Author

Claudia Piñeiro

Publisher

Alfaguara

Collection

Hispánica

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.00 x 15.10

ISBN13

9788420429601

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Las Maldiciones (in Spanish)"

Un joven ingresa al mundo de la política por las razones equivocadas y debe afrontar las dramáticas consecuencias.«Alguien puede llegar a la política por muchos motivos. Unos más legítimos, otros menos. También por error, por desidia. O por no saber decir que no.»Román Sabaté entra al mundo de la política casi por casualidad, pero es allí donde se sella su destino. La permanente tensión entre la necesidad de trabajo de un joven de provincia y las ocultas intenciones del político que lo ha elegido como secretario privado es lo que mueve los hilos de esta novela: dos hombres en conflicto en una historia en la que hasta la paternidad está en juego. Magia, doble discurso o crimen, todo vale. Las maldiciones desnuda la verdad de la llamada ""nueva política"", basada en un pragmatismo absoluto que esconde la inescrupulosidad del engaño y la ambición sin límites.Claudia Piñeiro ha escrito una novela certera, conmovedora y actual, que pone el foco en las perversiones de los gobernantes, pero que también les hace lugar a las historias de lealtad y amor más verdaderas.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONClaudia Piñeiro strikes again with a moving plot that ties in current affairs into one extraordinary novel A young man enters the world of politics for the wrong reasons and must face dramatic consequences. Claudia Piñeiro has written a moving novel that deals with a lot of current events, which focuses on the perversions of rulers, but also gives rise to the stories of loyalty and true love. "Las maldiciones" (The curses) bare the truth of the so-called ""new politics"", based on an absolute pragmatism that hides the unscrupulousness of deception and ambition without limits. Román Sabaté enters the world of politics almost by chance, but it is there where his destiny is sealed. The permanent tension between the need for work of a young provincial and the hidden intentions of the politician who has chosen him as private secretary is what makes this novel so intriguing and creates an undeniably exquisite plot that is a constant page-turner."

Claudia Piñeiro

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Claudia Piñeiro was born in Greater Buenos Aires in 1960. She is a writer, playwright, TV scriptwriter, and contributor to various print media. She has published the novels Las viudas de los jueves, Tuya, Elena sabe, Las grietas de Jara, Betibú, Un comunista en calzoncillos, Una suerte pequeña, Las maldiciones, Catedrales, and El tiempo de las moscas. In 2018, Alfaguara published her collected stories in Quién no, and in 2021, in Argentina, a volume with her plays, Cuánto vale una heladera y otros textos de teatro

For her literary, theatrical, and journalistic work, she has received various national and international awards, including the Premio Clarín de Novela, the LiBeraturpreis Award, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award, the Rosalía de Castro Award from the PEN (Club of Poets, Essayists, and Narrators of Galicia), the Pepe Carvalho Award from the Barcelona Negra Festival, the Dashiell Hammett Award from the Semana Negra de Gijón, the Negra y Criminal Award from the Tenerife Noir Festival, the Best Novel Award from the Valencia Negra Festival, and was a finalist for the International Booker Prize 2022 with the English translation of Elena sabe

As a co-author, along with Marcelo Piñeiro, of the TV series El reino, she won the Platino Award for best series creators. Several of her novels have been adapted into films. She is one of the most translated Argentine writers into other languages, making her books read and enjoyed by thousands of readers around the world

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