by Soledad Puértolas · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433909862
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«Si al atardecer llegara el mensajero» is the contemporary novel by Soledad Puértolas, published by Anagrama in hardcover (240 pages, in Spanish).
The novel starts from a hypothesis: human beings know the date of their death. Tobías Kaluga, a dweller of heaven, comes down to Earth to erase that knowledge from one person and see whether ignorance helps one live. Fascinated by human emotions, he neglects his mission and confronts love, loss and eternity. Echoes of Calvino and Roth.
Originally published in Barcelona in 1995, it is part of the Narrativas hispánicas collection (no. 176).
Work for general readers fond of contemporary narrative in Spanish and of fictions with a reflective, melancholic tone.
Soledad Puértolas Villanueva is a Spanish writer. On 28 January 2010, she was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
