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Viena Roja
¿Qué pasa cuando se nos despoja de aquello por lo que hemos vivido, aquello por lo que hemos entregado todo sin reservas? ¿En que puede llegar a convertirse un ser humano cuando el fuego interno que lo alimenta le es arrebatado? El mundo de Friedl Aichinger -joven violinista, alumna del compositor Arnold Schonberg- se verá colapsado cuando un buen día sea imposibilitada para seguir abrazando la música, su mayor pasión, tras ser víctima de un cruento episodio de brutalidad.
162 pages
First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Tryno Maldonado
13 books103 followersTryno Maldonado (Zacatecas, México, 1977). Considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices in contemporary Mexican literature. He was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Colombian magazine Gatopardo in 2006.
His work appears in various national and international anthologies. He has published the collection of stories Themes and Variations (among the best books of 2003 according to the newspaper Reforma) and the novels Red Vienna (2005), Hunting Season for the Black Lion (2009), The Catastrophe Theory (2012), the short stories book Heavy Metals (2014), and Ayotzinapa. The Face of the Disappeared (2015; the chronicle of what occurred in that region, where he moved and lived for four months to to merge with the families of the young people whose lives ended in a drama still unexplained.)
He organized and edited the anthology Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: New Generation of Mexican Writers (2008) and has contributed to some of the most important publications in Mexico and part of his work is included in national and international anthologies. He worked for a while in a gold and silver mine in the Sierra Madre..
"Tryno Maldonado is one of the strongest cards
of contemporary Mexican narrative."
ENRIQUE SERNA, LETRAS LIBRES
“Tryno Maldonado achieves with extraordinary mastery the intertwining ans fusion of literature that is fun and even delicate, with an irreverent, subversive, ferocious abd yet simultaneously character. A prince of sex."
SERGIO PITOL
"The Catastrophe Theory is not another simple novel... is one of the top three or four relevant books of its generation"
RAFAEL LEMUS, LETRAS LIBRES
His work appears in various national and international anthologies. He has published the collection of stories Themes and Variations (among the best books of 2003 according to the newspaper Reforma) and the novels Red Vienna (2005), Hunting Season for the Black Lion (2009), The Catastrophe Theory (2012), the short stories book Heavy Metals (2014), and Ayotzinapa. The Face of the Disappeared (2015; the chronicle of what occurred in that region, where he moved and lived for four months to to merge with the families of the young people whose lives ended in a drama still unexplained.)
He organized and edited the anthology Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: New Generation of Mexican Writers (2008) and has contributed to some of the most important publications in Mexico and part of his work is included in national and international anthologies. He worked for a while in a gold and silver mine in the Sierra Madre..
"Tryno Maldonado is one of the strongest cards
of contemporary Mexican narrative."
ENRIQUE SERNA, LETRAS LIBRES
“Tryno Maldonado achieves with extraordinary mastery the intertwining ans fusion of literature that is fun and even delicate, with an irreverent, subversive, ferocious abd yet simultaneously character. A prince of sex."
SERGIO PITOL
"The Catastrophe Theory is not another simple novel... is one of the top three or four relevant books of its generation"
RAFAEL LEMUS, LETRAS LIBRES
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