El corazón del héroe

The Heart of a Hero
Author: 
Juan José Flores
Publisher: 
Alfaguara
Year of Publication: 
2009
Pages: 
225
ISBN: 
9788420 474663
Genre: 
Literature
Season: 
AUTUMN 2009
SYNOPSIS

LOVE WINS THE BATTLES REASON LOSES. THAT’S WHAT THIS DREAM IS LIKE…
Having woken up from a coma which no one thought he would survive, Lino retakes his ordinary life as a watchman in a magic bar shows. Every night, after waiting for the return of his beloved Milena, he has the same dream, a dream he can’t explain…
Far from his everyday life, every night Lino lives an intense and dif¬ferent life as a brave Macedonian General in the army of Ale-xan¬der the Great. Is he remembering a previous life? Or is it just wish¬ful dreaming of a life he would have loved to live?
A mysterious nurse will help him work out the secret which will bring peace back to the heart of the hero…
Illusion and reality attract and repel each other in this novel, one not being able to be understood without the other…
 

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About En el umbral (Edhasa, 2002):
Inglés: “The intense plot flows with admirable naturalness. The rhythm of the story, its natural chaining technique within a progressive dramatic intensification, is the fundamental merit of Juan José Flores, allowing to venture that he has a magnificent future ahead of him.” - Santos Sanz Villanueva, Revista de Libros

About Todas la primaveras (Alfaguara, 2005):
Inglés: “The structure of the story reminds one of Chinese boxes, which, far from slowing its pace, creates a vertigo which contributes immensely to the emotional depth of the novel… Juan José Floes has written a sort of Calderonian dream. Besides, of course, a Unamunoan game. And it has come out really well.” - J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Qué Leer