LA NOVELA DE CONCHA PIQUER UN MITO QUE DEFINI??? TODA UNA ???POCA DE LA HISTORIA DE ESPA???A. UNA MUJER QUE ROMPI??? TODOS LOS MOLDES. POR EL RETRATISTA M???S AGUDO Y BRILLANTE DE LA LITERATURA ESPA???OLA ACTUAL. ???Es capaz de captar los detalles m???nimos de personajes y objetos, y de analizar, con cuidado y sutileza, los sentimientos de las criaturas que asoman a sus textos???. --Ascensi???n Rivas, El Cultural Una joven camina r???pido sobre la nieve de las calles de Nueva York un d???a de invierno ...
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LA NOVELA DE CONCHA PIQUER UN MITO QUE DEFINI??? TODA UNA ???POCA DE LA HISTORIA DE ESPA???A. UNA MUJER QUE ROMPI??? TODOS LOS MOLDES. POR EL RETRATISTA M???S AGUDO Y BRILLANTE DE LA LITERATURA ESPA???OLA ACTUAL. ???Es capaz de captar los detalles m???nimos de personajes y objetos, y de analizar, con cuidado y sutileza, los sentimientos de las criaturas que asoman a sus textos???. --Ascensi???n Rivas, El Cultural Una joven camina r???pido sobre la nieve de las calles de Nueva York un d???a de invierno de los a???os veinte. Lleva una receta en el bolso que le permitir??? adquirir en la farmacia una botella de vino para celebrar la Nochebuena con unos amigos. Estamos en plena ley seca. La joven es Concha Piquer, tiene apenas dieciocho a???os y lleva ya cuatro triunfando en los escenarios de Broadway, se ha visto envuelta en un homicidio y ha tenido contactos con la mafia. Lleg??? casi sin experiencia, sin conocer m???s mundo que la huerta y alg???n teatro de su ciudad, sin hablar otra lengua que no fuera el valenciano. Antes de volver a Espa???a y convertirse en s???mbolo de toda una ???poca, deslumbra tambi???n en M???xico y Cuba. La ni???a campesina regresa envuelta en glamour y dinero, con varios amantes a sus espaldas y un hijo secreto. A partir de entonces, su vida se cruza con la de escritores como Blasco Ib??????ez o Garc???a Lorca, toreros como Antonio M???rquez, pol???ticos, boxeadores, actores y actrices... Lejos del estereotipo de la cupletista, Concha Piquer fue mucho m???s que eso o, para ser exactos, fue de todo menos eso. La historia de esta ???mujer moderna??? es tambi???n un retablo de una ???poca de la historia de Espa???a, la de la posguerra y el franquismo. Y Manuel Vicent la recrea con una magistral mezcla de realidad y ficci???n, y un ingenio, una finura y una iron???a sin igual en la literatura espa???ola. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A NOVEL ABOUT CONCHA PIQUER. A MYTH THAT DEFINED AN ENTIRE ERA IN THE HISTORY OF SPAIN. A WOMAN WHO BROKE ALL MOLDS. BY THE KEENEST, MOST BRILLIANT PORTRAIT ARTIST IN SPANISH LITERATURE TODAY. "He is capable of capturing the slightest details in characters and objects, of carefully and subtly analyzing the feelings of all creatures that peek through his texts." --Ascensi???n Rivas, El Cultural One winter's day in the nineteen twenties, a young woman walks hastily down the snow-covered streets of New York. She has a prescription inside her purse that will permit her to buy a bottle of wine at the drugstore to celebrate Christmas Eve with some friends. Prohibition is in full swing. The young woman is Concha Piquer. She is barely eighteen and has already been a hit on the Broadway stage for four years, has gotten involved in a murder case, and has come in contact with the mafia. She arrived with almost no experience, ignorant of the world beyond the farm and the occasional theater in her hometown, speaking nothing but Valencian. Before returning to Spain and becoming the symbol of an entire age, she also dazzled Mexico and Cuba. The country girl returns engulfed in glamour and money, with several lovers behind her and a secret son. From then on, her life crosses paths with that of writers Blasco Ib??????ez and Garc???a Lorca, matadors such as Antonio M???rquez, politicians, boxers, actors... Far from the couplet singer's stereotype, Concha Piquer was much more than that. Or to be exact, she was everything but. The story of this "modern woman" also depicts an era in Spanish history: Postwar and Francoism. And Manuel Vicent recreates it with a masterfu
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