by Jorge Edwards · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483101339
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«El sueño de la historia» is the historical novel by Jorge Edwards, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
A narrator returns after a long exile to Chile in the last years of the dictatorship to investigate eighteenth-century documents about the life of Joaquín Toesca, an Italian architect sent to the colony to finish the cathedral, and that of his wife Manuelita Fernández de Rebolledo. The novel interweaves this research with memory, exile and identity.
It was published in April 2000 and belongs to the Andanzas collection of Tusquets, where it bears number 407.
A title for readers of historical fiction and Latin American narrative interested in Chile under the dictatorship and in the work of Jorge Edwards.
Jorge Edwards Valdés was a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Sebastián Piñera presidency.
