Resultados para "Cristina Rivera Garza" en Biografías y memorias

En "A puerta cerrada" los grandes autores de la literatura en español nos invitan a pasar a sus espacios privados y a compartir con nosotros una conversación íntima sobre los extraños días que vivimos. Confesiones desde el confinamiento que no solo...

»Lilianas unvergänglicher Sommer« ist das intime und zugleich vielschichtige Porträt einer Schwester. Es ist die aufwühlende Suche nach den Spuren einer jungen Frau. Es ist der unbedingte Wunsch, nach dem und über das Grauen zu schreiben und die eigene Trauer zuzulassen. Es ist ein funkelndes literarisches Werk von weltweiter Strahlkraft.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Lethem)...

On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza’s sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide. She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her.