Las hojas muertas (Bolsillo)

Las hojas muertas (Bolsillo) - Bárbara Jacobs - Ediciones Era
Publisher name: 
Ediciones Era
Year of publication: 
2018
Pages: 
103
Book size:
11x17cm

In The Dead Leaves, a multiple voice narrates the journey of a man whose fundamental principle in life was to fight: as a young man for causes he rightly believed would benefit humanity; in old age and until the end, for causes he wrongly believed would benefit only him.

A member of a family of Lebanese immigrants, the protagonist goes from being a child newspaper vendor in a small town in the eastern United States, to a correspondent for a New York magazine in 1930s Moscow, to a combatant in the Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. Later, among various jobs and tasks, he establishes and manages a hotel in Mexico City. Meanwhile, his deep-rooted passion for reading becomes his daily occupation, interrupted only occasionally by glances into the past, which he sees as a certainly happier time.

The spontaneity and fluidity with which Barbara Jacobs writes this novel tr...read more

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Book: Las hojas muertas (Bolsillo)

ISBN: 9786074455014
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