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Body Time

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Marcado por el saxo de Charlie Parker transcurre la historia del profesor Justo Flores, que llega a dar una conferencia sobre ‘El deseo y sus limitaciones rituales’, y la de Rosa Travis, que trata de dar con la verdad. Con una. Con cualquiera. Body time es un remolino vertiginoso que gira a gran velocidad.

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First published January 1, 2003

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Gabriela Alemán

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Gabriela Alemán, a writer based in Quito, Ecuador, has played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress, administrator, translator, radio scriptwriter, and film studies professor. She received a PhD at Tulane University and holds an MA in Latin American literature from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. She received a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and was included in Bogota39, a 2007 selection of the most important up-and-coming writers in Latin America in the post-Boom generation. She was one of five finalists for the 2015 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) for her story collection La muerte silba un blues and has won several prizes for critical essays on literature and film. Her other books include the short-story collections Maldito corazón, Zoom, Fuga permanente, and Álbum de familia; and the novels Body Time, Poso Wells, and Humo. Her stories have appeared in anthologies in French, English, Chinese, Hebrew, and Serbo-Croatian. Poso Wells is her first full-length work to appear in English.

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El mundo académico suele estar rodeado de un halo impoluto de ideas y conceptos vanguardistas. Gabriela Alemán nos introduce a ese mundo mostrándonos que ellos son también personas como todos, y enfrentan las mismas dificultades. Rosa Travis, la hija de un migrante europeo con un pasado dudoso y una migrante latina en un esfuerzo de escribir su gran reportaje nos lleva a recorrer este mundo repleto de intrigas, juegos de poder y drogas, mientras ella misma averigua el pasado de su padre del que tan poco sabe. En el desarrollo de la novela Alemán también nos muestra parte del presente y el pasado de Nueva Orleans.
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