{"product_id":"el-hombre-que-movia-las-nubes-the-man-who-could-move-clouds-spanish-edition-by-ingrid-rojas-contreras","title":"El hombre que movía las nubes (The Man Who Could Move Clouds, Spanish Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePor\/by Ingrid Rojas Contreras\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFINALISTA DEL PREMIO PULITZER • Finalista del National Book Award 2022 (Premio Nacional de Literatura 2022), organizado por la Fundación Nacional del Libro de Estados Unidos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLa autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de renombre, dotado de lo que la familia llamaba “los secretos”: el poder de hablar con los muertos, predecir el futuro, tratar a los enfermos y mover las nubes. La madre de Ingrid, la primera mujer en heredar los secretos, era igualmente poderosa. Mami disfrutaba su habilidad de aparecer en dos lugares a la vez, y era capaz de expulsar al más terco de los espíritus usando apenas un vaso de agua.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRojas Contreras solía creer que este legado pertenecía solo a su madre y a su abuelo, hasta que un día, en sus veinte y viviendo en Estados Unidos, sufrió una herida en la cabeza que le provocó amnesia. Mientras recuperaba la memoria, su familia le contó que esto había sucedido antes: décadas atrás Mami había tenido una caída que también le había provocado amnesia; y cuando se recuperó, descubrió que tenía acceso a los secretos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEn 2012, urgida por un sueño compartido con Mami y sus hermanas, y por la necesidad imperiosa de volver a aprender la historia familiar tras su pérdida de la memoria, Rojas Contreras decidió acompañar a su madre en un viaje a Colombia para exhumar los restos de Nono. Con la guía impredecible, testaruda y casi siempre divertida de Mami, rastrea sus orígenes indígenas y españoles, revelando la violenta historia colonial que, con el paso del tiempo, separaría a su familia mestiza en dos grupos: los que piensan que los secretos son un don y los que creen que son una maldición.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Rojas Contreras reacquaints herself with her family’s past, weaving their stories with personal narrative, unraveling legacies of violence, machismo and colonialism… In the process, she has written a spellbinding and genre-defying ancestral history.”—New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980’s and 1990’s in a house where “what did you dream?”was asked in place of “how are you?” her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, cure the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped on her mother’s fortune-telling business from the stairs and waited eagerly fort he moments when Mami appeared in two places at once. She was accustomed to \"letting the ghosts in.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo when Ingrid, now living in the U.S., suffered a head injury in her 20’s that left her with amnesia —an accident eerily similar to a fall that had put her mother in a coma at the age of 8, from which she woke with not just amnesia, but the ability to see ghosts— the family assumes “the secrets” have finally been passed down to the next generation. But as Ingrid recovers her memories, they don't come with supernatural abilities. Rather, she is consumed by a powerful urge to learn even more about her heritage than she knew before the accident. Spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable to rest peacefully in the afterlife, Ingrid joins her mother on a journey home to Colombia to disinter her grandfather’s remains. With her mother as her unpredictable, stubborn and often hilarious guide, Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those who believe \"the secrets\" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterweaving family stories more enchanting than any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of story telling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Linda Letra Bilingual Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47942288474263,"sku":"9781644735459","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/9819\/0231\/files\/9781644735459.jpg?v=1782159320","url":"https:\/\/linda-letra.com\/products\/el-hombre-que-movia-las-nubes-the-man-who-could-move-clouds-spanish-edition-by-ingrid-rojas-contreras","provider":"Linda Letra Bilingual Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}