Las cenizas de la Bounty

by Susana Fortes

Una guerra es un lugar del que nadie regresa indemne. De eso trata esta novela, de un regreso, aunque en ella también se dan cita algunos de los dramas de este fin de milenio. Andrés, después de una misión como corresponsal de guerra en los Balcanes, regresa a Madrid y tiene un extraño encuentro. Lo que sucede a partir de ese momento es la historia de una perturbación en la que intervienen, de forma inesperada, el amor, el desamor, la perplejidad, el miedo, cierta manera de entender la amistad y toda la confusión de sensaciones que puede sentir una persona cuando ha llegado al límite.Susana Fortes (Pontevedra, 1959 ganó en 1994 el premio Nuevos Narradores con su primera novela "Querido Corto Maltés". Colabora en suplementos literarios de periódicos y en revistas cultutales.

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Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Susana Fortes (Pontevedra, Spain, 1959) graduated in Geography and History at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and in American History from the Universidad de Barcelona. She has recently spent time in the USA, combining teaching Spanish in Louisiana and participating in university conferences at the Universidad Interestatal de San Francisco. She currently teaches at a secondary school in Valencia. With her first novel, Querido Corto Maltés (Dear Corto Maltés), she won the 1994 Premio Nuevos Narradores. In 2001 she was shortlisted in the Premio Primavera awarded by Espasa for her novel, Fronteras de arena (Borders of Sand). She has also published Las cenizas de la Bounty (Ashes of the Bounty; Espasa, 1998), Tiernos y traidores (Tender Traitors; Seix Barral, 1999) and the screenplay Adiós, muñeca (Ciao, Doll; Espasa, 2002). With her novel El amante albanés (The Albanian Affairs) she was short-listed for the Premio Planeta 2003. Her novels have been translated into English, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Greek, German, Italian, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Chinese (Simplified and Complex) Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Turkish, Hebrew, Russian and Korean. Susana is a regular contributor to the newspaper El País, as well as various cinema and literature magazines.

Her novel El azar de Laura Ulloa (The Fate of Laura Ulloa), Planeta 2006, won the Premio de la Crítica and has been translated into several languages. Quattroccento (Planeta, October 2007) and her last novel Waiting for Robert Capa (Planeta, 2009), winner of the Premio Fernando Lara 2009, have been translated into 12 languages and are best-seller in many countries.

Film rights of Waiting for Robert Capa have been sold to Forward Pass (Michael Mann's production company) and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay is written by Jez Butterworth.