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La cabeza de mi padre / My Father's Head (Spanish Edition)

by Alma Delia Murillo

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Escribo para soltar el peso de cuarenta años rumiando el mito de mi padre, las infinitas versiones de mi padre. A sus cuarenta años, como un road trip, sin más referente que una fotografía vieja, una hija emprende la búsqueda de su padre. Mientras narra la decisión de ir a conocerlo y el viaje que la lleva de Ciudad de México a Michoacán, iremos construyendo, junto a ella, el pasado, los amores, las alegrías, los accidentes, las ausencias. "Todos somos hijos de Pedro Páramo", nos dice Alma Delia Murillo, ante el factor tan común que es el abandono del hogar por parte del padre. Frente a este hecho, ella se desnuda en cada capítulo para hablarnos de la necesidad de reconstruir ese símbolo de peso universal, para lograr definirse. Su vida, entonces, se despliega como el entramado de esta búsqueda: entre siete hermanos y una madre trabajadora, la protagonista crece y reflexiona no sólo sobre su biografía, sino también sobre la historia de un país profundamente dividido en donde las mujeres no han contado lo suficiente, desde su punto de vista, el relato del padre. La cabeza de mi padre es un libro transparente, en el que los oyentes acompañaremos el viaje para dar con ese hombre de destino misterioso y, quizá, alcanzaremos a ver destellos de nuestras propias búsquedas. Una historia escrita desde la entraña, desde donde sólo se puede transitar el camino hacia el origen. I write to release the weight of forty years ruminating on the myth of my father, the infinite versions of my father. At forty years old, like a road trip, with no more reference than an old photograph, a daughter undertakes the search for her father. While she narrates her decision to meet him and the trip that takes her from Mexico City to Michoacán, we will build, together with her, the past, the loves, the joys, the accidents, her absences. "We are all children of Pedro Páramo," Alma Delia Murillo tells us, faced with the common factor that is her father's abandonment of the home. Faced with this fact, she undresses in each chapter to talk to us about the need to rebuild that symbol of universal weight, in order to define herself. Her life, then, unfolds as the framework of this search: between seven brothers and a working mother, the protagonist grows up and reflects not only on her biography, but also on the history of a deeply divided country where women have not counted enough, from his point of view, the story of the father. My father's head is a transparent book, in which listeners will accompany the journey to find that man with a mysterious destiny and, perhaps, we will catch glimpses of our own searches. A story written from the inside, from where you can only walk the path to the origin.… (more)
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Escribo para soltar el peso de cuarenta años rumiando el mito de mi padre, las infinitas versiones de mi padre. A sus cuarenta años, como un road trip, sin más referente que una fotografía vieja, una hija emprende la búsqueda de su padre. Mientras narra la decisión de ir a conocerlo y el viaje que la lleva de Ciudad de México a Michoacán, iremos construyendo, junto a ella, el pasado, los amores, las alegrías, los accidentes, las ausencias. "Todos somos hijos de Pedro Páramo", nos dice Alma Delia Murillo, ante el factor tan común que es el abandono del hogar por parte del padre. Frente a este hecho, ella se desnuda en cada capítulo para hablarnos de la necesidad de reconstruir ese símbolo de peso universal, para lograr definirse. Su vida, entonces, se despliega como el entramado de esta búsqueda: entre siete hermanos y una madre trabajadora, la protagonista crece y reflexiona no sólo sobre su biografía, sino también sobre la historia de un país profundamente dividido en donde las mujeres no han contado lo suficiente, desde su punto de vista, el relato del padre. La cabeza de mi padre es un libro transparente, en el que los oyentes acompañaremos el viaje para dar con ese hombre de destino misterioso y, quizá, alcanzaremos a ver destellos de nuestras propias búsquedas. Una historia escrita desde la entraña, desde donde sólo se puede transitar el camino hacia el origen. I write to release the weight of forty years ruminating on the myth of my father, the infinite versions of my father. At forty years old, like a road trip, with no more reference than an old photograph, a daughter undertakes the search for her father. While she narrates her decision to meet him and the trip that takes her from Mexico City to Michoacán, we will build, together with her, the past, the loves, the joys, the accidents, her absences. "We are all children of Pedro Páramo," Alma Delia Murillo tells us, faced with the common factor that is her father's abandonment of the home. Faced with this fact, she undresses in each chapter to talk to us about the need to rebuild that symbol of universal weight, in order to define herself. Her life, then, unfolds as the framework of this search: between seven brothers and a working mother, the protagonist grows up and reflects not only on her biography, but also on the history of a deeply divided country where women have not counted enough, from his point of view, the story of the father. My father's head is a transparent book, in which listeners will accompany the journey to find that man with a mysterious destiny and, perhaps, we will catch glimpses of our own searches. A story written from the inside, from where you can only walk the path to the origin.

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