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Ciudades al final de la noche
2017
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4.13
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“Llegar por primera vez a una ciudad es experimentar muchas cosas”, dice Santiago Gamboa, “pero sobre todo la magnífica sensación de ser libre”. Quizá esa misma sensación explique que buena parte de sus novelas tengan como escenarios principales las ciudades que ha conocido a lo largo de su vida: escribir es también una expresión extrema de libertad. De manera que un seguidor de la obra de Gamboa podrá construir puentes entre sus novelas y sus crónicas de viajes, entre la ficción y la realidad. Pero, con este libro, el viejo y el nuevo lector comparten la posibilidad del asombro: cada ciudad aparece como un punto luminoso en la extensa oscuridad de la noche.

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Author

Santiago Gamboa
Santiago Gamboa
Author · 16 books

Born at Bogotá, he studied literature at the Javerian University of Bogotá. He travelled to Spain where he remained until 1990 and graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of Alcalá de Henares. He then moved to Paris, where he studied Cuban Literature at the Sorbonne. He made his debut as a novelist with Páginas de vuelta (1995), a work which established him as one of the most innovative voices of the new Colombian narrative; later he wrote Perder es cuestión de método (1997), which was internationally acclaimed, and has been translated into 17 lenguages, and about which a film is now being made, and Vida feliz de un joven llamado Esteban (2000), a novel which has added to his international prestige. He is the author of the travel book Octubre en Pekín (2001). As a journalist, he has been a contributor to the Latin American Service of Radio France International in Paris, a correspondent of El Tiempo of Bogotá, and columnist on the magazine Cromos. He is now residing in Rome.

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