"Asombroso y agriamente po???tico". -- The New York Times Esta sorprendente memoria se convirti??? cl???sico instant???neo cuando se public??? por primera vez en Colombia en 2012, casi una d???cada despu???s de la muerte de su autora, quien fue alentada en sus escritos por Gabriel Garc???a M???rquez. Mediante veintitr???s cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germ???n Arciniegas a lo largo de treinta a???os, Reyes describe de manera viva y con detalles pintorescos el coraje notable y la imaginaci???n ilimitada de una ...
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"Asombroso y agriamente po???tico". -- The New York Times Esta sorprendente memoria se convirti??? cl???sico instant???neo cuando se public??? por primera vez en Colombia en 2012, casi una d???cada despu???s de la muerte de su autora, quien fue alentada en sus escritos por Gabriel Garc???a M???rquez. Mediante veintitr???s cartas dirigidas a su amigo y confidente Germ???n Arciniegas a lo largo de treinta a???os, Reyes describe de manera viva y con detalles pintorescos el coraje notable y la imaginaci???n ilimitada de una ni???a que crece con nada. Emma Reyes era una ni???a ileg???tima, criada en una habitaci???n sin ventanas en Bogot??? sin agua ni inodoro, y que sobreviv???a ???nicamente de su ingenio para mantenerse a ella misma y a su hermana. Abandonada por su madre, ambas ni???as se son acogidas por un convento cat???lico que albergaba a 150 ni???as hu???rfanas, donde lavaban ollas, planchaban y reparaban la ropa, fregaban pisos, limpiaban ba???os, cos???an prendas y telas decorativas para las monjas y viv???an con temor al Diablo. Analfabeta y sin saber nada del mundo exterior, Emma escap??? a los diecinueve a???os, estableciendo una carrera como artista y forjando amistades con Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera, as??? como con artistas e intelectuales europeos. El retrato de su infancia que surge de este relato clarividente inspira en el lector un asombro especial hacia la deslumbrante vida de una talentosa escritora cuyo talento permaneci??? oculto por demasiado tiempo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Startling and astringently poetic." -- The New York Times An extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood defined by uprootedness and migration. Emma Reyes was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogot??? with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by her mother, she moved with her sister to a Catholic convent, where she scrubbed floors and mended garments for the nuns--and lived in fear of the Devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, she escaped at age nineteen, eventually establishing a career as an artist, befriending the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals, and being encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garc???a M???rquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, this astonishing memoir describes in painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Discovered only after Reyes's death, it reveals a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long.
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