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An aspiring young writer from Spain begins work as a teaching assistant on a Midwestern campus and finds himself sharing an office with Rodney Falk, a taciturn Vietnam veteran of strange ways and few friends. But when Rodney suddenly disappears the narrator becomes obsessed with discovering the secrets of his past. Why do people fear Rodney? What traumatic event happened at My Khe during the war? And, when the narrator's life takes a terrible twist, is Rodney the only person in the world who can save him?
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Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis, which was a huge international success selling nearly 1 million copies worldwide, being translated into twenty languages and winning Cercas and Anne McLean the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction. Anne McLean has translated Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs and other writings by writers including Carmen Martin Gaite, Orlando Gonzalez Esteva, Julio Cortazar and Tomas Eloy Martinez. Her translation of Soldiers of Salamis also won her the 2004 Valle Inclan Prize.
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Etat : Muy bueno. : En 'La velocidad de la luz', Javier Cercas nos presenta a un joven escritor español que, buscando una historia que contar, acepta un trabajo como asistente de profesor en una universidad de Estados Unidos. Allí conoce a Rodney Falk, un veterano de Vietnam con una personalidad enigmática. A medida que su amistad se desarrolla, el narrador se obsesiona con los secretos del pasado de Rodney, descubriendo por qué la gente le teme y qué evento traumático ocurrió en My Khe. Años después, cuando la vida del narrador da un giro inesperado, Rodney podría ser la única persona capaz de salvarlo. Una historia sobre la amistad, los secretos del pasado y la búsqueda de la identidad. EAN: 9780747585916 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Speed of Light Autor: Javier Cercas Editorial: Bloomsbury Paperbacks Idioma: en Páginas: 288 Formato: tapa blanda. N° de réf. du vendeur Happ-2023-10-31-0cf546bc
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