by Antonio Skármeta · EL MUNDO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303087
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«El cartero de Neruda» is the novel by Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta, published by El Mundo in hardcover (93 pages, in Spanish).
A young fisherman from Isla Negra starts working as a postman and discovers that the only recipient on his route is the poet Pablo Neruda. The friendship between the postman and Neruda grows when the young man turns to the poet to win over the woman he likes, in a turbulent Chile of the 1960s.
The novel was originally published in 1985 under the title «Ardiente paciencia». The El Mundo edition includes a prologue by Antonio Colinas and belongs to the collection Las 100 mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX.
A work for readers of Latin American fiction and for those interested in the figure of Pablo Neruda and twentieth-century Chile.
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, screenwriter, and director. His novel Ardiente paciencia was the basis for the film Il Postino. In Chile, he was popularly known for hosting a television show on literature and the arts. He served as Chile's ambassador to Germany from 2000 to 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the Chilean National Literature Prize.
