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9786073814379

En la llanura de las serpientes: Viajes por los caminos de México / On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey

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    9786073814379

  • ISBN10:

    6073814372

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2022-08-23
  • Publisher: Alfaguara

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«—¿Cómo se llama este pueblo, señor?

—Es San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca —dijo—. Allá está el viejo convento. Era una iglesia rota, enorme, hueca y solitaria.

—¿Qué significa Coixtlahuaca?


—El llano de las serpientes.»


Paul Theroux ha recorrido el mundo en busca de las historias y los pueblos que dan vida a los lugares que llaman hogar. Ahora, mientras los debates sobre inmigración hierven en todo el mundo, Theroux se ha propuesto explorar un país clave para comprender el discurso global actual: México.

Con la misma sensibilidad humanizadora que lo caracteriza, el legendario escritor de viajes recorre toda la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México, se adentra en las carreteras de Chiapas y Oaxaca, visita a los trabajadores de los molinos zapotecas en el altiplano y asiste a una reunión del partido zapatista para descubrir el mundo rico y estratificado que también hay detrás de un país convulso.

«Hace amigos, va a todos lados, aprende español con otros extranjeros, ve cómo hacen mezcal, toma clases de cocina y, sobre todo, aprende y escucha, una de las lecciones del libro. […] Un libro tan complejo, tan interesante y sobre todo tan imprescindible.» —Pedro Ángel Palou, El Heraldo

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The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines.
 
Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility that he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as family members brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his “curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms” (The New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict.

Author Biography

Paul Theroux (Medford, Massachusetts, 1941) es uno de los escritores más reconocidos del mundo. El gran bazar del ferrocarril (Alfaguara, 2018) lo catapultó a la fama en 1976 y constituye un clásico de la literatura de viajes. En su prolífica obra destacan títulos como Tren fantasma a la Estrella de Oriente (Alfaguara, 2010), El Tao del viajero (Alfaguara, 2012) y El último tren a la zona verde (Alfaguara, 2015), o novelas como La costa de los mosquitos (adaptada al cine por Peter Weir y por la que recibió en 1981 el James Tait Black Memorial Prize), La calle de la media luna, Hotel Honolulu, Elefanta Suite (Alfaguara, 2008), Un crimen en Calcuta (Alfaguara, 2011) y En Lower River (Alfaguara, 2014). Tras la muerte de su madre pudo dar por terminada Madre patria, su desgarradora novela autobiográfica en la que llevaba años trabajando.

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