Zumbido

Buzz
Author: 
Juan Sebastián Cárdenas
Publisher: 
451 Editores
Year of Publication: 
2010
Pages: 
138
Number of editions: 
1
Spanish Retail price: 
14.91€
ISBN: 
978-84-96822-93-1
Genre: 
Literature
Season: 
SPRING 2010
SYNOPSIS

After receiving the news of his sister’s death, a man starts out on a journey, an escape, which leads him from the centre of a congested Latin American city to the outskirts, where the jungle is fighting to take over. His journey becomes a drift. He lives with the fellow travellers he collects in the dazed present of survivors of a catastrophe who are only capable of feeding the strategy of their own flight: to continue, advance, keep going…

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Company: 
451 Editores
Address: 
Xaudaró 25, 28034 Madrid
Contact: 
José Hamad
Phone: 
34 91 33 44 890
E-mail: 
jhamad@451editores.com
Website: 
http://www.451editores.com
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Prizes and reviews: 

“He has a vast literary talent, writes like a maestro, his prose is of the highest quality, as good as the best (and I am not talking about the best in Spain, but the best in general)… He reminds me of Denis Johnson’s mixture of tension and lyricism, the impersonal and reverie and, in general, of the best recent North American prose fiction.” (Andrés Ibáñez, ABCD)