by Antonio Skármeta · ARETE · tapa dura · ISBN 9789500720373
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«La chica del trombón» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta, published by ARETE in hardcover (314 pages, in Spanish).
A two-year-old girl arrives in Antofagasta with a trombonist; Esteban Coppeta, an emigrant, raises her as his granddaughter. In her childhood and adolescence, the girl tries to discover her past and identity, linked to Alia Emar and a tragic wedding night on the island of Gema. Love, irony, pain, cinema and the obsession with New York run through the story.
The novel, published in 2001, received the José María Arguedas Narrative Prize in 2003.
For readers of literary fiction interested in Antonio Skármeta's narrative and in stories of migration, identity and memory.
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.
