Product Description

Driven by his desire to forget a turbulent relationship with one of his students, professor Pedro Zabalaga sets out to uncover the mysterious death of his father in his native Bolivia.

Blurb in Spanish:
Pedro regresa a su Bolivia Natal huyendo del amor inclemente de Ashley, su alumna en una universidad estadounidense. También vuelve en busca de datos sobre su padre, un heroico líder de izquierda asesinado por la dictadura boliviana. En esta investigación, Pedro se encuentra en medio de una vorágine de infidelidades políticas y traiciones amorosas en las que descubre claves de su identidad.

El pasado y el presente, el amor y la política se conjugan en una suerte de dicotomías que convierten al protagonista en acertijo de us propio crucigrama.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #906862 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-15
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 284 pages

From Publishers Weekly
In his fifth novel, Paz Sold n, an acclaimed writer and Latin American literature professor at Cornell University (see "Dreaming a New American Literature," Cr!ticas, Summer 2001), has created a story in which politics, technology, and passion converge to confuse and frustrate the protagonist's quest for reality. Pedro returns to his native R!o Fugitivo, a fictitious city in Bolivia, to investigate the death of his father, a leftist leader killed years before under that country's dictatorship. Pedro is also fleeing from an illicit relationship with one of his students at a U.S. university. His quest proves difficult, however, as he cannot decipher the leads to his father's killing and discovers that distance does not heal a lover's heart. The novel gives a solid sense of Pedro's dual existence as a Bolivian with a past in his native country and a life in the United States. Paz Sold n emphasizes Pedro's inability to find the truth about his father despite the many sources of information available to him, ranging from an actual manuscript left by the revolutionary leader to various high-tech resources. Throughout this captivating, well-written thriller, readers will find themselves as powerless and defenseless as the protagonist is to remove the many layers that disguise reality. Recommended for all libraries and bookstores. Irene Perez, Jersey City, NJ
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Language Notes
Text: Spanish

About the Author
Edmundo Paz Soldan (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1967) is one of the most influential Bolivian writers of the new generation. He was finalist for the Premio de Novela Romulo Gallegos and has won the Premio de Cuento Juan Rulfo 1997.

Customer Reviews

Aburrida
¿Habrá lguna especie de genio maligno que fuerza a los escritores latinoamericanos a escribir novelas densas, auto-compadecientes y pretensiosas, en las que pasa todo y nada, de final abierto, introspección constante, superficial e insoportable, etc?

Si hay tal genio, lamentablemente actuó a pleno con el señor Paz Soldán. La cereza del helado: un 20% de los diálogos tiene inserciones en inglés, sin traducir, lo cual, más que novedoso, polémico o clasista, es esnob e irritativo.

La próxima vez, Señor Soldán, cuénteme una historia. No trate de hacer un tratado sobre política boliviana contemporánea, psicología, análisis literiario, aculturación y la mar en coche todo en un mismo libro.

The best of the new crop
The reader in search of intelligent fiction will not be disappointed here. This novel touches your heart and teases your mind.

Many words for the father, so few for Ashley
This book is good. But the search of Pedro by the truth on his father makes somewhat tedious to read. Nevertheless their sentimental problems with Ashley and Carolina, allow you to follow with the curiosity necessary to finish the book.