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Ciudades en llamas

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410 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 2023

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Kai Aareleid

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Kai Aareleid is an Estonian author and literary translator born in Tartu and sharing her life between Tallinn, Helsinki, London and travelling the world (and books).
She has had a background in the book world since early 2000s and has worked as a translator, editor, publisher and literary agent.
A prolific translator from Spanish, Finnish and English into her native Estonian, she has translated works by Bruce Chatwin, Javier Marías, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Enrique Vila-Matas, Roberto Bolaño, Isabel Allende, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.
Her own novels are about memory and roots, family bonds, secrets and silences. She is known for her sparse and aquarellic style; short, miniature-like chapters, and her special relationship to photography, food and cityspaces, both past and present.
She has won numerous literary prizes and her works have been translated into several languages.

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July 29, 2024
«El brillo de la luz solo se entiende por comparación con la oscuridad».
La pequeña-gran Tiina y sus padres en la Estonia soviética.
Secretos, silencios y mentiras.
Vidas fragmentadas y fragmentos de la historia estonia.

2013. Una Tiina adulta escarba con dolor en su memoria, para que su corazón se calme y por fin se quemen las ciudades del pasado. Regresa con su cuaderno negro a Tartu, la ciudad donde creció y que la atormenta; la camina y la contempla para que las sombras ya no la amedrenten.

Más de esta reseña en Read & Fly, un blog de viajes y libros: https://readnfly.com/2024/07/17/ciuda...
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June 8, 2025
Misterios de familia en Estonia durante la dictadura de Stalin, familia corta porque al resto les deportaron y un secreto a penas desvelado uno o muchos hasta llegar al 2013.
Si te gustan las miserias del comunismo soviético en la frialdad báltica este es tu libro.
"Ciudades en llamas" de Kai Aareleid
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