9789543840885 - Kite (Small Stations Fiction, Band 16) von Queipo, Xavier (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Como nuevo. : La novela Kite de Xavier Queipo narra la vida de Francis, un emigrante de origen gallego en Estados Unidos, que vive en la ciudad de San Rafael, al norte de San Francisco, y trabaja como traductor y editor freelance. En una proyección de Apocalypse Now en el cine, conoce a Rose, una irlandesa liberal y con ambiciones profesionales, e inician una relación apasionada. Pero su relación despreocupada y hedonista se ve amenazada cuando a Francis, a quien su editor, Martin, le ha pedido que complete una traducción al inglés del Ensayo sobre la ceguera del escritor portugués José Saramago en un tiempo récord, debido a las predicciones de que Saramago podría ganar el Premio Nobel, se le diagnostica a él mismo el inicio de la ceguera. ¿Cómo reaccionará Rose? ¿Cómo afrontará Francis este descenso a la oscuridad? ¿Y podrá terminar su traducción de la obra de Saramago a tiempo? Kite nos lleva de viaje a las vidas de los emigrantes en Estados Unidos cuya educación tradicional a menudo está en conflicto con la sociedad permisiva y liberal en la que habitan. EAN: 9789543840885 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Kite Autor: Xavier Queipo Editorial: Small Stations Press Idioma: en Páginas: 224 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Xavier Queipo's novel Kite follows the life of Francis, a Galician-born emigrant in the United States, who lives in the city of San Rafael, north of San Francisco, and works as a freelance translator and editor. At a showing of Apocalypse Now in the cinema, he meets Rose, a liberal and career-minded Irishwoman, and they start a passionate relationship. But their carefree and hedonistic relationship is threatened when Francis, who has been asked by his publisher, Martin, to complete a translation into English of the Portuguese writer José Saramago's Essay on Blindness in record time, owing to the predictions that Saramago might win the Nobel Prize, is himself diagnosed with the onset of blindness. How will Rose react? How will Francis cope with this descent into darkness? And will he be able to finish his translation of Saramago's work in time? Kite takes us on a journey into the lives of emigrants in the United States whose traditional upbringing is often in conflict with the permissive, liberal society they inhabit. Then there is Andy, Francis's ex-lover and a loyal friend, for whom he still harbours intense feelings, and a return to the Galicia of his birth, an experience Francis hopes will be balsamic, but which may prove catastrophic. We are left with the image of a Chinese boy on the beach in San Rafael, trying to fly his kite, the symbol of something (or someone) at the mercy of the wind. The boy is grateful for the help Francis offers, but unsure whether to accept. There is the gesture; we are left with the time and space to interpret it.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Xavier Queipo's novel Kite follows the life of Francis, a Galician-born emigrant in the United States, who lives in the city of San Rafael, north of San Francisco, and works as a freelance translator and editor. At a showing of Apocalypse Now in the cinema, he meets Rose, a liberal and career-minded Irishwoman, and they start a passionate relationship. But their carefree and hedonistic relationship is threatened when Francis, who has been asked by his publisher, Martin, to complete a translation into English of the Portuguese writer José Saramago's Essay on Blindness in record time, owing to the predictions that Saramago might win the Nobel Prize, is himself diagnosed with the onset of blindness. How will Rose react? How will Francis cope with this descent into darkness? And will he be able to finish his translation of Saramago's work in time? Kite takes us on a journey into the lives of emigrants in the United States whose traditional upbringing is often in conflict with the permissive, liberal society they inhabit. Then there is Andy, Francis's ex-lover and a loyal friend, for whom he still harbours intense feelings, and a return to the Galicia of his birth, an experience Francis hopes will be balsamic, but which may prove catastrophic. We are left with the image of a Chinese boy on the beach in San Rafael, trying to fly his kite, the symbol of something (or someone) at the mercy of the wind. The boy is grateful for the help Francis offers, but unsure whether to accept. There is the gesture; we are left with the time and space to interpret it.