by Guillermo Arriaga · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467231267
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«El búfalo de la noche» is the novel by Guillermo Arriaga, published by Alfaguara in paperback (254 pages, in Spanish).
The novel narrates the passionate triangle between Gregorio, Tania and Manuel, marked by jealousy, guilt and betrayal. After the decision of Gregorio, a hypersensitive adolescent, to end his life, his ex-girlfriend and his best friend fall into a spiral of self-destruction in Mexico City, the setting for a reflection on youthful nihilism.
Published in 2007, the novel was adapted into a movie with the same title; Guillermo Arriaga worked on that adaptation.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Mexican narrative and in stories of relationships taken to the limit.
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as "a hunter who works as a writer," he is best known for his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay nominations for Babel and his screenplay for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award.
