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Una cita con la Lady by Mateo Garcia Elizondo
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Una cita con la Lady

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Length 5 hours 51 minutes
Language Spanish
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Summary

Galardonado con el Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, 2019

Un viaje espectral entre la vida y la muerte, entre el amor y su pérdida en este impresionante debut de Mateo García Elizondo ​

«Vine a Zapotal para morirme de una buena vez. En cuanto puse un pie en el pueblo me deshice de lo que traía en los bolsillos, de las llaves de la casa que dejé abandonada en la ciudad, y de todo el plástico, todo lo que tenía mi nombre o la fotografía de mi rostro. No me quedan más que tres mil pesos, doscientos gramos de goma de opio y un cuarto de onza de heroína, y con esto me tiene que alcanzar para matarme.» El protagonista y narrador de esta novela va en busca de la cita definitiva con la lady en forma de polvo blanco, y para ello emprende un viaje al final de la noche en el que se sucederán encuentros con personajes inquietantes, con los fantasmas de los amigos muertos por el camino, con los recuerdos de la gran ciudad que ha dejado atrás y con su propio pasado.
 
La primera frase de la novela evoca el mítico inicio del Pedro Páramo de Rulfo, y hay en sus páginas ecos del grotesco carnaval mexicano de autodestrucción de Bajo el volcán de Malcolm Lowry. Con una prosa envolvente e hipnótica, Mateo García Elizondo narra, en este asombroso y extraordinario debut, un viaje al corazón de las tinieblas, el espectral descenso a los infiernos de un adicto que se adentra en una senda con un único destino posible, que está cada vez más cerca.

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Winner of the 2019 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona.

A haunting journey between life and death, between love and loss in this notable debut novel by Mateo García Elizondo


«I came to Zapotal to die once and for all. As soon as I set foot in town, I got rid of everything I had in my pockets, the keys to the house I left behind, and anything that had my name or my picture on it. All I have left are three thousand pesos, two hundred grams of opium and a quarter of an ounce of heroin, and that should be enough to kill myself." The protagonist, and also narrator, of this novel goes in search of a final date with “the lady” in the form of a white powder, and for this he undertakes a journey in which he will come across disturbing characters, the ghosts of friends that have died along the way, memories of the great city that he left behind, and he will also face his own past.

In this amazing and extraordinary debut novel, Mateo García Elizondo narrates the spectral descent of an addict into the depths of hell.

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