Donde cantan las ballenas (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)
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8 books in one bag 23 cm.
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Spanish
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BOOKS LOANED TO LIBRARIES FOR BOOK CLUB USE ONLY! Sponsored by the Colorado State Library Book Club Project.
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"Candelaria tiene doce años y vive con su excéntrica familia en Parruca, un mítico lugar perdido entre montañas. Su madre habla con las piedras, su hermanastro cultiva hongos alucinógenos y su padre, un artista que esculpe ballenas, los ha abandonado. Mientras la vegetación empieza a devorar la casa, los tres reciben a extraños personajes: una mujer experta en plantas venenosas que lleva más de un muerto a cuestas, un hombre que teme a los rayos y dispara contra las nubes que amenazan tormenta, un desahuciado que persigue su propia muerte y deja tras de sí un enigmático manuscrito... Candelaria tratará de que la acompañen en la búsqueda de su padre, y ese proceso le revelará la verdadera complejidad de la vida y le hará comprender que, por debajo de las apariencias, todo ser humano es en ocasiones vulnerable y débil. También su padre, también ella. Con ecos de la narrativa de Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo o Gioconda Belli, Donde cantan las ballenas pertenece a ese nuevo realismo, presente en las obras de Dolores Reyes, Karina Sainz Borgo o Mariana Enriquez, que nos revela una Latinoamérica que parece de otro tiempo y otro mundo... pero está en este."--Publisher's description.
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Candelaria is twelve years old and lives with her eccentric family in Parruca, a mythical place lost in the mountains. Her mother talks to stones, her stepbrother grows hallucinogenic mushrooms and her father, an artist who sculpts whales, has abandoned them. While the vegetation begins to devour the house, the three of them are visited by strange characters: a woman who's an expert in poisonous plants who carries more than one dead person on her back, a man who fears lightning and shoots at the clouds that threaten a storm, a homeless man pursues his own death and leaves behind an enigmatic manuscript .. Candelaria will try to make them accompany her search for her father, and this process will reveal the true complexity of life and will make her understand that, beneath appearances, every human being is vulnerable and weak at times.
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Jaramillo Klinkert, S. (2021). Donde cantan las ballenas (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection) (Primera edición.). Lumen.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jaramillo Klinkert, Sara. 2021. Donde Cantan Las Ballenas (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection). Lumen.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jaramillo Klinkert, Sara. Donde Cantan Las Ballenas (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection) Lumen, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jaramillo Klinkert, Sara. Donde Cantan Las Ballenas (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection) Primera edición., Lumen, 2021.
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