Adiós a los padres

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Adiós a los padres
Goodbye to My Parents
HÉCTOR
AGUILAR CAMÍN
PUBLISHED BY:
Spanish PEGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Praise for HÉCTOR AGUILAR CAMÍN
(English)
“Aguilar Camín has delved deep
into the greatness and miseries
of his family. The result is
Adiós a los padres
(Goodbye to My Parents).”
Javier Rodríguez Marcos, El País
“His fiction is measured and very authentic.
It stands out for its intelligent,
complex handling of the characters
involved: flesh and blood people
with their natural contradictions.”
Leo Zuckermann, Excelsior
“Adiós a los padres
(Goodbye to My Parents)
is his most intimate and personal work.”
Juan Diego Quesada, El País
“Aguilar Camín writes with an elegant
sobriety that enables him to put a certain
distance between himself and the story,
not only thanks to the marvellous literature
we know so well but also a sensible
tendency to digress.
(…) It works.
He has produced a high octane book,
the best of the year to be published
in this country and an excellent new step
in his work.”
Julio Patán, Milenio
Aguilar Camín pasa factura a su padre
Javier Rodríguez Marcos
El País (Spain)
September 9th, 2014
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“The author of more than twenty works of fiction and
non-fiction (….) Aguilar Camín has delved deep into
the greatness and miseries of his family. The result is
Adiós a los padres (Goodbye to My Parents).”
Los padres son seres mitológicos
Juan Diego Quesada
El País (Spain)
November 15th, 2014
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“Adiós a los padres (Goodbye to My Parents)
is his most intimate and personal work.”
Adiós a los padres
Mauricio Flores
Milenio (Mexico)
October 27th, 2014
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“In a prodigious feat of memory,
Héctor Aguilar Camín (Chetumal, 1946)
has written a novel about his family,
Adiós a los padres (Goodbye to My Parents),
in which the characters could not be closer to the author. ”
Adiós a los padres
Julio Patán
Milenio (Mexico)
November 18th, 2014
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“Aguilar Camín writes with an elegant sobriety that
enables him to put a certain distance between himself
and the story, not only thanks to the marvellous
literature we know so well but also a sensible tendency
to digress, maybe drawing on his talents as a historian
as he skilfully, seductively tells us about Guatemala, a
Chetumal swamped by nature, and the Mexico City of
his youth. It works. He has produced a high octane
book, the best of the year to be published in this
country and an excellent new step in his work.”
Yo me hice escritor para escribir
"Adiós a los padres“
Ciro Gómez Leyva
“Adiós a los padres (Goodbye to My Parents) is the
Grupo Fórmula (Mexico)
best book I’ve written. From a literary point of view it
was essential, not a word is out of place, it was a
October 24th, 2014
marvelous release, like an end of school trip.”
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Perdonar a los padres
Leo Zuckermann
Excelsior (Mexico)
November 3th, 2014
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“His fiction is measured and very authentic. It stands
out for its intelligent, complex handling of the
characters involved: flesh and blood people with their
natural contradictions. Adiós a los padres (Goodbye to
My Parents) contains stories of love and hate,
generosity and miserliness. There are mistakes and
successes, periods of glory and penury, reluctant
enrichment and sudden impoverishment. In short: life.”