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9781644731925

Salvar el fuego/ Saving the Fire

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    9781644731925

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    1644731924

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-05-19
  • Publisher: Alfaguara
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Summary

Premio Alfaguara 2020

Marina, una mujer casada, con tres hijos, con una vida familiar resuelta, coreógrafa de cierto prestigio, se ve involucrada en un amorío improbable con un hombre impensable. 


Salvar el fuego retrata dos Méxicos completamente escondidos uno del otro, en los que Marina, que pertenece a la clase social más alta, se vincula con un hombre al extremo de la sociedad.

Esta es una novela que retrata las contradicciones de un país y las contradicciones más hondas de la naturaleza humana. Es una novela de amor y es una novela que al final termina por brindar esperanza. 

«Un autor absolutamente único.».-Guadalupe Nettel

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Winning novel of the Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2020  

Marina, a married woman and mother of three, with a conventional and organized family life, is a choreographer of a certain prestige, and gets involved in an unlikely affair with an unthinkable man.


Saving the Fire portrays two Mexicos completely different from each other, in which Marina, who is part of the highest social class, is linked to a man considered to be at the extreme bottom of society.

Saving the Fire is a novel that portrays the contradictions of a country as well as human nature’s deepest contradictions. This is a love story; it is a novel which at the end, offers much hope.

Author Biography

Guillermo Arriaga ha publicado las novelas Escuadrón Guillotina (1991), Un dulce olor a muerte (1994), El búfalo de la noche (1999) y El Salvaje (2016), Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2017 al mejor libro del año, y la colección de cuentos Retorno 201 (2006)Su obra ha sido traducida a dieciocho idiomas. Escribió las películas Amores perros, 21 gramos Babel —que forman una trilogía que apostó por la narrativa no lineal y que reflexiona sobre el peso de la vida por encima de la muerte— y Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada, que recibió el premio al mejor guion en el Festival de Cannes 2005. En 2008 presentó su ópera prima como director: The Burning Plain. Recientemente produjo y coescribió Desde allá, primera película iberoamericana que ha ganado el León de Oro en el Festival de Cine de Venecia.

ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY

Guillermo Arriaga is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director, and producer. He has published the novels Escuadrón Guillotina / Guillotine Squad (1991), Un dulce olor a muerte / Sweet Scent of Death (1994), El búfalo de la noche / The Night Buffalo (1999), and El Salvaje / The Savage (2016), Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 2017 for the best book of the year, and the collection of short stories Retorno 201 / Return 201 (2006); his works have been translated into eighteen different languages. He wrote the screenplays for the multi-award winning movies “Amores perros”, “21 Grams”, and “Babel”, which make up “The Death Trilogy” that opted for a non-linear narrative and that reflects the theme of death, and for “Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada / The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada”which received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award. In 2008 he made his debut as a movie director with The Burning Plain, and recently he produced and co-wrote “Desde allá”, the first Latin American film that has won the León de Oro at the Venice Film Festival.

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