by Guillermo Arriaga · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420439303
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«Salvar el fuego» is the contemporary fiction novel by Guillermo Arriaga, published by Alfaguara in paperback (664 pages, in Spanish).
The novel narrates the unlikely encounter between Marina, an upper-class choreographer with a conventional life, and José Cuauhtémoc, a murderer sentenced to fifty years in prison. Through that relationship, it portrays two opposing Mexicos and the contradictions of love, desire and revenge in a country marked by violence.
Winner of the 2020 Alfaguara Novel Prize, this work is part of Alfaguara's Hispánica collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Latin American literature interested in plots of social violence, love and redemption.
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as "a hunter who works as a writer," he is best known for his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay nominations for Babel and his screenplay for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award.
