by Sergio Ramírez · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420463315
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In 'Ese día cayó en domingo', Sergio Ramírez, Cervantes Prize winner, presents us with a collection of stories that explore themes such as family, love, individual and collective memory, death, and everyday life. With his characteristic humor and focus on the losing protagonists, Ramírez turns reality into a literary work of art. The stories take us from a woman who fights loneliness with crossword puzzles to a town massacred in Guatemala, showing the author's mastery in the short story genre.
Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of the country 1985–1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega. He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer". Since the 1990s, he has been involved in the left-wing opposition to the Nicaraguan government, in particular in the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista. He was exiled from the country in 2021 and stripped of his nationality by the government in 2023.
