by Antonio Skármeta · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497595230
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«El cartero de Neruda» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
A young fisherman named Mario Jiménez trades his job for that of postman in Isla Negra, where his only regular customer is Pablo Neruda. Initial admiration turns into a friendship in which both converse about metaphors, love and politics, while the Chile of the 1970s heads toward a dramatic outcome with the coup d'état.
The work's original title, «Ardiente paciencia», appears as a subtitle in this 2003 edition within DEBOLSILLO's Contemporánea collection.
For those interested in Latin American narrative and in the film adaptation of the work in the movie «Il Postino», by Michael Radford.
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.
