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Cuesta abajo
Un grave accidente, esquiando, irrumpe en la vida de Conrado, un profesional joven y exitoso. No es solo su suerte lo que se debate en la cama de un hospital. La familia —mujer, dos hijos— asume que también sus vidas quedan en suspenso. Juanita, su esposa, periodista de renombre, cuenta aquí, en primera persona, esa historia, que involucra su propia metamorfosis. Es un testimonio estremecedor, pero también, en cada línea, el más certero retrato de la capacidad de la naturaleza humana cuando se lleva al límite. La prosa vibrante, florida y visceral nos toma de la mano y nos pasea con ritmo de crónica: lo cotidiano y lo trascendental se superponen.
Cuesta abajo es un libro por momentos trepidante, en otros, reflexivo, que se lee con el aliento en pausa. Drama. Amor. Pasiones. Y, con la fuerza de un rayo, la esperanza.
Cuesta abajo es un libro por momentos trepidante, en otros, reflexivo, que se lee con el aliento en pausa. Drama. Amor. Pasiones. Y, con la fuerza de un rayo, la esperanza.
192 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2024
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September 10, 2024
Juana Libedinsky and her husband, Conrado, travel every summer to Bariloche, Argentina, to enjoy the slopes. In 2019, while skiing, Conrado lost control on a sheet of ice, fell to the ground and rolled downhill until he hit a rock. Although he had a helmet, the impact was so severe that his helmet fell off and he became unconscious on the spot. He was 53 years old, with severe traumatic brain injury, and at a three on the Glasgow scale, the coma state closest to brain death; doctors predicted a 90% chance of dying or remaining in a vegetative state.
This is Libedinsky's memoir of this terrible time. To deal with everything going on, and to keep her sanity, really, she decides to keep playing tennis, something that brings her joy, and to turn to books. One of my favorite things in this book is how she is able to “take” from books and from other writer’s experiences and allow it to provide her with some type of solace.
Cuesta Abajo, in English “downhill”, refers not only to Conrado’s fall, but also to Libedinsky’s life once back in NYC, filled with downhills like the children's lice and the two times she was robbed on the subway!
The writing here, is great, and the fact that although this is a sad subject and I cried several times throughout (!), Libedinsky never loses her spark and sense of humor, so she also made me smile a lot. A very emotional quick read of drama, love and hope, that I recommend to everyone.
This is Libedinsky's memoir of this terrible time. To deal with everything going on, and to keep her sanity, really, she decides to keep playing tennis, something that brings her joy, and to turn to books. One of my favorite things in this book is how she is able to “take” from books and from other writer’s experiences and allow it to provide her with some type of solace.
Cuesta Abajo, in English “downhill”, refers not only to Conrado’s fall, but also to Libedinsky’s life once back in NYC, filled with downhills like the children's lice and the two times she was robbed on the subway!
The writing here, is great, and the fact that although this is a sad subject and I cried several times throughout (!), Libedinsky never loses her spark and sense of humor, so she also made me smile a lot. A very emotional quick read of drama, love and hope, that I recommend to everyone.
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