Premio Euskadi de Literatura en castellano. Finalista del Man Booker International Prize. Una novela autobiogr???fica en la que la autora trata de comprender su relaci???n con la muerte y la familia a trav???s del an???lisis de dos sucesos: el asesinato de su abuelo a manos de ETA y el fallecimiento de su madre. ???Una novela cuya atm???sfera nos proporciona un alivio semejante al que siente un pez devuelto al agua despu???s de haber sido capturado. [...] Ley???ndola se asiste una vez m???s a ese misterio por el que la ...
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Premio Euskadi de Literatura en castellano. Finalista del Man Booker International Prize. Una novela autobiogr???fica en la que la autora trata de comprender su relaci???n con la muerte y la familia a trav???s del an???lisis de dos sucesos: el asesinato de su abuelo a manos de ETA y el fallecimiento de su madre. ???Una novela cuya atm???sfera nos proporciona un alivio semejante al que siente un pez devuelto al agua despu???s de haber sido capturado. [...] Ley???ndola se asiste una vez m???s a ese misterio por el que la vida de otro, que poco o nada tiene que ver con la tuya, deviene en una cuesti???n de orden personal. Como si m???s que una novela, se tratara de una carta dirigida a ti.??? --Juan Jos??? Mill???s La muerte es un acontecimiento de primer orden. Cuando la parca se lleva a un ser querido heredamos lo que qued??? sin resolver, y el dolor, o la liberaci???n, que acarrea el deceso se extiende en el tiempo hasta que el vivo asume no s???lo la desaparici???n del otro, sino tambi???n parte de la suya propia en la medida en que estamos hechos de retazos de los dem???s. En esta novela autobiogr???fica Gabriela Ybarra trata de comprender su relaci???n con la muerte y la familia a trav???s del an???lisis de dos sucesos: el asesinato de su abuelo en 1977 a manos de ETA y el fallecimiento de su madre en 2011 por un c???ncer. As???, la primera parte de El comensal es una reconstrucci???n libre (por tanto, no esconde la parte de ficci???n de toda memoria) del secuestro y posterior asesinato del empresario espa???ol Javier de Ybarra, quien tambi???n fue alcalde de Bilbao y presidente de la Diputaci???n de Vizcaya durante el r???gimen franquista. Aunque esta muerte ha sacudido a todo el clan familiar (los padres de la protagonista tienen que abandonar el Pa???s Vasco y convivir con un escolta), no es hasta que la madre de la narradora enferma fatalmente que los duelos no hechos y las herencias pol???ticas no asumidas (a veces por ignorancia) estallan. El comensal es una novela importante por dos cosas: la narraci???n de un conflicto hist???rico desde un lugar personal procurando la huida del victimismo y el reconocimiento de la importancia que tiene el hacer visible la muerte para asumirla. Acostumbrados como estamos a que los procesos de deterioro y fin de la vida se escondan, la novela sorprender??? por lo que tiene de reconciliaci???n con la enfermedad, que aqu??? es relatada con luminosidad y sin puritanismo ni autocompasi???n. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize "A seamless blend of art, politics, and private life."--NPR The Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra's prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy. The story goes that in my family there's an extra dinner guest at every meal. He's invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present. The first to vanish was my grandfather. In 1977, three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra's grandfather's home, and pointed a gun at him in the shower. This was the last time his family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press, culminating in his murder. Ybarra first heard the story when she was eight, but it was only after her mother's death, years later, that she felt the need to go deeper and discover more about her family's past. The Dinner Guest is a novel with the feel of documentary non-fiction. I
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