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Loading... CHALECO ANTIBALASby Maria Venegas
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After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence--from the final conversations he had with his own father, to his extradition from the United States for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at the age of twelve.
"Tras catorce a©?os de ausencia, Maria Venegas regresa a M©?xico, desde Estados Unidos, para visitar a su padre Jos©? en la hacienda donde ©?l naci©?. Mientras pasan juntos una temporada, ©?l comparte los recuerdos de su vida. Es as©? como Venegas consigue reconstruir el pasado doloroso, violento y enardecido de su padre: desde la ©šltima conversaci©?n que sostuvieron antes de que ©?l fuera extraditado a M©?xico por asesinato, abandon©?ndola a ella y a su familia en Chicago, hasta el orgullo que sinti©? la madre de Jos©? cuando su hijo de s©?lo doce a©?os mata por primera vez. Con una prosa sobria y fascinante, Chaleco antibalas es el reconocimiento de Maria ante el dif©?cil legado de su padre. Movi©?ndose entre M©?xico y Nueva York, entre pasado y presente, Venegas reconoce su propia historia y la de Jos©?, al tiempo que una cercan©?a y un entendimiento por las acciones de ambos surgen entre ellos."--Back cover. No library descriptions found. |
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