El Mundo de Afuera / The Outside World
Language: Spanish
Published by Alfaguara, 2014
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- Title
- El Mundo de Afuera / The Outside World
- Author
- Franco, Jorge
- Publisher
- Alfaguara
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 1622639405
- ISBN 13
- 9781622639403
- Item weight
- 0.91 pounds
Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2014
Isolda vive encerrada en un castillo extraño y fascinante al mismo tiempo, tan ajeno a la ciudad de Medellín en la que se sitúa como singulares son sus habitantes y la vida que llevan. La atmósfera de irrealidad que se respira resulta opresiva para la adolescente, que encuentra en el bosque que lo rodea la única tregua posible a su soledad.
Pero las amenazas invisibles del mundo de afuera se cuelan silenciosamente entre las ramas de los árboles cercanos al castillo. Con un perfecto manejo de la tensión, Jorge Franco construye en esta novela un cuento de hadas con tintes tenebrosos que acaba convirtiéndose en la historia desquiciada de un secuestro.
Dentro y fuera de la fortaleza, el amor, ese monstruo indomable, se muestra como una obsesión que aliena y embrutece, que pretende someter, que despierta deseos de venganza y del que solo parece posible escapar aceptando la muerte como destino. «Todas las tardes voy hasta el lindero por si sale de nuevo y la espero hasta las seis a ver si ella sube al bosque. Pero ni siquiera la he vuelto a ver asomada a la ventana. A veces me silban de algún lado y me emociono porque creo que es una seña de ella, pero el silbido se pierde entre los árboles y cambia de un lugar a otro.»
Esta novela fue galardonada con el XVII Premio Alfaguara, por un jurado presidido por Laura Restrepo y compuesto por Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Ana Cañellas, Nelleke Geel y Pilar Reyes.
El Jurado ha dicho...
«Entre la fantasía y la truculencia, entre los hermanos Coen y los hermanos Grimm, El mundo de afuera es una deliciosa sorpresa.»
Laura Restrepo, Presidenta del Jurado
«Fascinante y sorprendente. Arranca como un cuento de hadas y acaba como una película de Tarantino.»
Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, miembro del Jurado
«Jorge Franco triunfa en lo más difícil: la creación de personajes memorables.»
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, miembro del Jurado
«Una delicia de novela. Y leyendo me preguntaba: ¿a qué director de cine no le gustaría convertir esta novela en película? Personajes y diálogos memorables, y una fantástica historia. Voilà!»
Nelleke Geel, miembro del Jurado
Los escritores opinan sobre el autor...
«Este es uno de los autores colombianos a quien me gustaría pasarle mi antorcha.»
Gabriel García Márquez
«Pocos novelistas que escriben en mi lengua me producen tanta admiración como Jorge Franco.»
Almudena Grandes
La crítica ha dicho...
«Una novela de rara perfección, donde no hay un trazo equivocado, ni una frase que sobre o falte, tal es la sensación de su unidad narrativa. De su equilibrio entre la forma y la trama que encierra. Y de su empeño transfigurador de la materia humana, inasible en manos menos afortunadas, que maneja (#) Jorge Franco ha escrito una novela excelente.»
J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Babelia
«Como si se entrara por primera vez al interior de unos pasadizos y salones que nada tienen que ver con el mundo de allí fuera al que se refiere el título. Y hay que darle a ese sitio un nuevo tono, una personalidad #y una monstruosidad- que, aunque se pondrá al servicio de un poderoso suspense #de narrador férreo, pertinaz y sabio- no se parecerá a nada.»
Lilian Neuman, Cultura/s. La Vanguardia ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Outside World takes place in Medell n. There, time is wrapped in a mist, and voices seem like whistles that get lost among tree branches. A castle-like structure stands watch in the overgrown outskirts of the city, and a blond girl runs out the door. Eyes watch, captivated by this unusual presence, and the girl disappears into the forest. It is 1971, and this girl's father, don Diego, has been kidnapped. El Mono is the leader of the crime ring, whose intention is to demand a million-dollar ransom from the family. El Mono has reasons aside from economics to kidnap don Diego: a romantic obsession with the man's daughter, Isolda, a blonde princess whose father, a devotee of Wagner's operas, has kept her locked in the "castle" to preserve her purity and avoid sullying her with the crude outside world that surrounds them
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