La rosa en el viento
by Sara Gallardo
Description
"The rose that is destroyed in the wind lets its petals fly in a burned light," says this hallucinatory novel by Sara Gallardo, her latest publication, an extraordinary culmination for a dazzling, always precise, always unique, always captivating body of work. In La rosa en el viento, all the characters move, embarking on journeys that are sometimes physical and sometimes emotional, but in every case, they take them far from whom they were at the beginning. Olaf, a Swedish immigrant who has escaped a terrible episode in Italy, becomes a sheep breeder in Patagonia alongside Andrei, a Russian journalist who, in turn, seeks to win over an unconquerable woman, whose story reaches us in flashes, much like that of Oo, the Indian woman bought by Andrei, or Lina, who follows Andrei south, and Olga, who two generations earlier followed Alexis the revolutionary to an America that, for these characters, is both a land of promises and forgotten dreams that never truly materialize. Kaleidoscopic, polyphonic, synthetic, and modern, La rosa en el viento brings together all of Sara Gallardo's talent for storytelling and emotional impact, and it demands that we read it again.
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"Composed of numerous independent stories that share only a brief narrative core—the 'petals of a rose' that fall away as you read—the novel posits that the mysterious wind of 'true existence' always sneaks in menacingly 'into the interstices of events,' thereby reminding us of the precariousness and transience of the order formed in our own gaze, blessed only by beauty and the indispensable gift of mercy." Leopoldo Brizuela
Author Biography
Sara Gallardo was born in Buenos Aires in 1931. Granddaughter of the renowned Argentine naturalist and minister Ángel Gallardo, great-granddaughter of Miguel Cané, and great-great-granddaughter of Bartolomé Mitre, the extensive library in her family home opened the doors to literature for her at an early age. Her first novel, Enero, was published in 1958 and received excellent critical acclaim. It was followed by Pantalones azules (1963) and the extraordinary Los galgos, los galgos (1968), which established her in the public eye and earned her the Municipal Prize. In addition to novels, she wrote children's literature and a collection of short stories (El país del humo, 1977). She also contributed to magazines such as Primera Plana and Confirmado, as well as to the newspaper La Nación. Eisejuaz (1971) confirmed her as a unique voice. Over the past years much of her work has been reissued and translated into other languages. In the late 1970s, she left Argentina and began working as a correspondent in Europe. She died in Buenos Aires in 1988.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Fiordo
- Publication Date 2020
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789874568381
- Publication Country or regionArgentina
- FormatPaperback
- Pages144
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Titlespa
- Original Language Authorsspa
- Edition4
- Copyright Year1979
- Dimensions225x145 mm
- SeriesFicción
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