A tamaño natural es una disección única de una de las relaciones más sagradas y conflictivas entre seres humanos, las paterno-filiales, en un juego de espejos y referencias que aborda este apasionante tema desde la filosofía, el arte, la religión, la historia o la mitología. Desde la historia de Marc Chagall o el sacrificio extremo de Abraham, en estas páginas hay también hijos que han negado su origen, que han tratado de borrarlo, como la hija del criminal de guerra que no puede hacer más que una elección total: negarse para siempre la capacidad de engendrar, para acabar con el legado del odio. Erri De Luca atraviesa, con su mirada personal y su experta sensibilidad, los nudos que unen de por vida a padres e hijos, a veces desde el rechazo del afecto o el cuestionamiento de las generaciones precedentes y la ingratitud, a veces desde el aprendizaje, el reconocimiento y la aceptación.
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Upon completing high school in 1968 Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement Lotta Continua. After the organization's disbandment he worked as a blue collar at the Fiat factory in Turin and at the Catania airport. He also was as a truck driver and a mason, working in job sites in Italy, France and Africa. He rode relief convoys in Yugoslavia during the war between 1993 and 1999. He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish. De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome. Although he never stopped writing since he was 20, his first book is published in 1989, Non ora, non qui (Not now, not here). Many more books followed, best sellers in Italy, France and Israel, his work being translated and published in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, USA, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Danmark, Romania, Greece and Lithuania. He has himself translated several books of the Bible into Italian like Exodus, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, Ruth, and explored various aspects of Judaism, as a non-believer. In France, he received the France Culture Prize in 1994 for Aceto, arcobaleno, the Laure Bataillon Award in 2002 for Tre cavalli and, also in 2002, the Fémina Étranger for Montedidio, translated in English as God's Mountain. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2003. Erri De Luca writes regularly for various newspapers (La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire), and magazines.
