LA NUEVA NOVELA DEL PREMIO CERVANTES Un magistral relato de aventuras lleno de humor ???Su obra refleja la viveza de la vida cotidiana convirtiendo la realidad en una obra de arte con excepcional altura literaria???. Jurado del Premio Cervantes Esta es la historia de una princesa de la nobleza rural de los C???rpatos que llevaba una f???rula ajustada con tornillos de cabeza avellanada y correas de vaqueta en la pierna izquierda. De un peluquero escultor de caballos, de barba frondosa abierta ...
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LA NUEVA NOVELA DEL PREMIO CERVANTES Un magistral relato de aventuras lleno de humor ???Su obra refleja la viveza de la vida cotidiana convirtiendo la realidad en una obra de arte con excepcional altura literaria???. Jurado del Premio Cervantes Esta es la historia de una princesa de la nobleza rural de los C???rpatos que llevaba una f???rula ajustada con tornillos de cabeza avellanada y correas de vaqueta en la pierna izquierda. De un peluquero escultor de caballos, de barba frondosa abierta en dos alas, que cre???a haber inventado el carrusel. De un factor de comercio, tambi???n de barba frondosa en dos alas, que se cre???a hijo del emperador Maximiliano. Y de un cocinero hablant???n y marrullero que salv??? de morir a un dictador. El peluquero inventor termina sus d???as envenenado y su cad???ver es lanzado al fondo de un r???o. El factor de comercio termina los suyos frente a un pelot???n de fusilamiento. Y el cocinero tiene su fin arrastrado por una embravecida corriente de lluvia, en estado de ebriedad. Empieza en 1905 en la aldea de Siret, entonces territorio del Imperio austroh???ngaro, y acaba en Managua en 1917, bajo la ocupaci???n militar de los Estados Unidos, con una conspiraci???n de final inesperado. El caballo dorado es tambi???n la historia de un carrusel llegado tras un largo viaje por mar a Nicaragua, y con el que la princesa fue despu???s de pueblo en pueblo, de fiesta patronal en fiesta patronal, los caballos de madera cada vez m???s venidos a menos por el paso del tiempo. Sergio Ram???rez despliega toda su maestr???a narrativa en esta deliciosa novela a medio camino entre el relato de aventuras y el de enredos, intrigas palaciegas y picaresca moderna. Plena de humor y de imaginaci???n, El caballo dorado narra el viaje desde una Europa que ya no existe hasta una Nicaragua convulsa para cumplir el sue???o inveros???mil de un inventor que invent??? lo que estaba ya inventado. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION THE LATEST NOVEL BY THE WINNER OF THE CERVANTES PRIZE A masterful and funny adventure tale "[Ram???rez's] work reflects the vividness of daily life by converting reality into a work of art, with exceptional literary skill." - Cervantes Jury Panel This is the story of a princess of the rural Carpathian nobility who wears a brace on her left leg, adjusted with screws and leather straps. Of a barber who sculpts horses, has a full, forked beard, and believes he invented the carrousel. Of a commercial agent, he too with a full, forked beard, who believes himself to be the son of the Emperor Maximilian. And of a chatty and charming cook who saved the life of a dictator. The barber/inventor is poisoned to death and his body thrown into a river. The commercial agent is shot by a firing squad. And the cook ends his days drunk in a heavy downpour. The tale begins in 1905 in the village of Siret, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and ends in Managua in 1917, during the US military occupation, with a conspiracy that produces unexpected results. The Golden Horse is also the story of a carrousel that arrives in Nicaragua after a long sea voyage. The princess accompanies this attraction from town fair to town fair, the wooden horses becoming more and more worn with the passage of time. Sergio Ram???rez exhibits his full narrative power in this delightful work, somewhere between adventure, intrigue and the modern picaresque. Replete with humor and imagination, The Golden Horse is the story of a journey from a Europe that no longer exists to a Nicaragua giddy with fulfilling the unlikely dream of an inventor whose creation has already been invented.
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