CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS

Poetisch und zugleich herzzerreiend. Carolina de Robertis tritt mit diesem Roman in die Fustapfen von Isabel Allende."PetraDe Robertis [] schildert in ihrem Roman Perla sehr einfuhlsam und anruhrend, wie sich die junge Frau in einem schmerzhaften seelischen Prozess ihrer wahren Identitat nahert.Westdeutscher Rundfunk, WDR 5, 4.5.2013Ein ungemein ergreifender, brillant geschriebener Roman uber ein dunkles Kapitel aus Argentiniens Geschichte.Regula Tanner, Schweizer Familie, 23.1.2014Ein zeitloses Thema, bewegend erzahlt.Focus Onlineein Buch von unglaublicher Wucht [], dem man voller Spannung bis zur letzten Seite folgt.Korinna Hennig, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR Info, 4.6.2013

n antidote to despair about our turbulent times from writers including Junot Díaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Claire Messud, Celeste Ng, Hari Kunzru and Jane Smiley.In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates' BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME and James Baldwin, RADICAL HOPE is a collection of love letters - to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in supermarket queues, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged - written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, RADICAL HOPE offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential election and the rise of nationalism across Europe.The full list of contributors is: Achy Obejas, Alicia Garza, Aya de León, Boris Fishman, Carolina De Robertis, Celeste Ng, Cherríe Moraga, Chip Livingston, Claire Messud, Cristina García, Elmaz Abinader, Faith Adiele, Francisco Goldman, Hari Kunzru, iO Tillet Wright, Jane Smiley, Jeff Chang, Jewelle Gomez, Junot Díaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Kate Schatz, Katie Kitamura, Lisa See, Luis Alberto Urrea, Meredith Russo, Mohja Kahf, Mona Eltahawy, Parnaz Foroutan, Peter Orner, Reyna Grande, Roxana Robinson and Viet Thanh Nguyen.

En el primer día del siglo xx, un pequeño pueblo en lo más profundo del campo uruguayo se reúne para ver un milagro —la misteriosa reaparición de Pajarita, una niña que se había perdido. Años despues, Pajarita comenzara una estirpe ferozmente independiente, tres generaciones de mujeres que lucharan por crearse una vida en su querida Uruguay, una patria que nutre sus almas a la vez que pone a prueba sus espiritus: su hija Eva, una fragil pero ferozmente obcecada belleza decidida a ser poeta, se sobrepondra a una desgarradora traicion para seguir un camino poco convencional. Y la hija de Eva, Salome, despertara tanto a la sensualidad como al compromiso politico en medio de los Internacionalturbulentos años sesenta. La montaña invisible es una mordaz celebracion del poder del amor familiar, de la voluntad de supervivencia en las circunstancias mas desesperadas y, sobre todo, del intenso vinculo entre madres e hijas.

A "San Francisco Chronicle" Best Book of 2015 An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015 February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father s cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across the world in Argentina. Upon her arrival in Buenos Aires, Leda is shocked to find that her bridegroom has been killed. Unable to fathom the idea of returning home, she remains in this unfamiliar city, living in a commune, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. She finally acts on a passion she has kept secret for years: mastering the violin. Leda is seduced by the music that underscores life in the city: tango, born from lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous dance of brothels and cabarets. Leda knows, however, that she can never play in public as a woman, so she cuts off her hair, binds her breasts, and, as a young man, joins a troupe of musicians bent on bringing tango into the salons of high society. As time progresses, the lines between Leda and her disguise will begin to blur, and feelings that she has long kept suppressed will reveal themselves, jeopardizing not only her music career but her life itself. With evocative scenery, prose suffused with the rhythms of the tango, and a deep, resonant core, De Robertis delivers her most accomplished novel yet. "From the Hardcover edition.""