by Javier García Sánchez · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408068150
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«K2» is the novel by Javier García Sánchez, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (450 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist faces K2 aware that, from a certain altitude, the human body begins to die and that this mountain, unlike others, tends to kill its climbers on the descent. The novel explores that attraction to the void and how the obsession with the summit only finds a counterweight in love.
The novel was published on November 16, 2006 within the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in mountaineering and stories of personal obsession.
Javier García Sánchez is a Spanish writer. Born in Barcelona in 1955, he studied at the Complutense University in Madrid. He edited the magazine Quimera for two years, and wrote in the culture pages of La Voz de Euskadi. He achieved literary success with his second novel La dama del viento sur, which won the Premio Pío Baroja and was translated into English by Michael Bradburn Ruster and Myrna R. Villa. He won the Premio Herralde with a later novel La historia más triste. His book on the champion road cyclist Miguel Indurain has been translated into English.
