
El Hombre Que Inventó Manhattan / The Man Who Invented Manhattan
Su suicidio pone en marcha la recreaci n por parte del narrador un inquilino del inmueble de un mundo en el que se mezclan la realidad y la ficci n. A trav s de historias cortas, agudas como flechas, marcadas por los juegos de identidades, el humor ir nico y unos personajes inolvidables, se erige una ciudad m tica: un Manhattan personal, exacto y al tiempo imaginado, te ido por toda la literatura y el cine que reflejan la ciudad de Nueva York.
Cuando se cumplen veinte a os de su publicaci n, llega a Alfaguara el gran libro de historias de Nueva York de Ray Loriga, ganador del Premio Alfaguara de novela 2017.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
On the twentieth anniversary of their first publication, Alfaguara offers this new edition of the New York stories of Ray Loriga, winner of the Alfaguara 2017 Novel Prize.
The man who invented Manhattan was named Gerald Ulsrak. He was married and had two daughters. Or maybe just one. Born in a small town in the mountains of Romania, he dreamed of a better place, Manhattan, and a better name, Charlie. Night after night, after working all day at his job as a handyman in an apartment complex, he told himself, like a mantra, that tomorrow would be a good day. On the morning of New Year's Day, 2002, he hung himself from a roof beam.
Ulsrak's suicide moves the narrator, a tenant of the apartment block, to craft this series of short stories that blend reality and fiction. Incisive and ironic, peopled by unforgettable characters with fluid identities, they depict a mythical city: a personal Manhattan, both accurate and imagined, influenced by the New York of literature and film.
Twenty years after they were first published, Alfaguara offers this new edition of the New York stories of Ray Loriga, winner of the Premio Alfaguara de novela 2017.
- Författare
- Ray Loriga
- ISBN
- 9788420477282
- Språk
- Spanska
- Vikt
- 295 gram
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2026-01-01
- Förlag
- Alfaguara
- Sidor
- 192
