| Title |
Lengua dormida
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| Names |
Félix, Franco.
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| Length |
1 online resource (audio (8 hours, 23 minutes))
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| Book Number |
DB121135
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| Title Status |
Active
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| Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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| Narrator |
Castillo, Beto.
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| Language |
Spanish
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| Annotation |
"After an accident that ultimately proved fatal, Ana María spent three years in and out of a clinic in Hermosillo, the city where she spent her final days. After her death, the secret biography of her past revealed one of the first: she lived in Mexico City, had a husband, four children and abandoned everything. The threads that link both existences are recounted in this novel that is at the same time a hagiography of loss, a love letter, a kaleidoscope of mourning, a search and a discovery. Grief is so difficult to overcome precisely because it invokes the absence of a story. Numb Tongue is an act-reflection in the face of orphanhood, the mental journey of a son searching for his dead mother. In a capricious and metamorphic way, as memory is, the narrative is populated with seemingly trivial anecdotes--his mother's fixation with Australia--as well as digressions on time and language. But nothing is gratuitous in the author's writing, his ability to generate images--a mob of kangaroos fleeing a fire only to drown in the sea--propels the narrative, linking the story's high points with those domestic minutia that give body and personality to a life." -- Translation provided by NLS. -- Some strong language. Spanish language.
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"Después de un accidente que a la postre resultó fatídico, Ana María pasó tres años entrando y saliendo de una clínica en Hermosillo, ciudad en la que culminó la última de sus vidas. Tras su muerte, la biografía secreta de su pasado dejó ver una de las primeras: vivió en la Ciudad de México, tuvo un marido, cuatro hijos y lo abandonó todo. Las hebras que engarzan ambas existencias están contadas en esta novela que es al mismo tiempo una hagiografía de la pérdida, una carta de amor, un caleidoscopio del duelo, una búsqueda y un hallazgo. El duelo es tan difícil de superar precisamente porque invoca la ausencia de un relato. Lengua dormida es un acto-reflejo frente a la orfandad, el recorrido mental de un hijo buscando a su madre muerta. De manera caprichosa y metamórfica, como es la memoria, la narración está poblada lo mismo con anécdotas en apariencia baladíes -- la fijación de su madre con Australia --, que con digresiones sobre el tiempo y el lenguaje. Pero nada es gratuito en la escritura del autor, su capacidad para generar imágenes -- una turba de canguros huyendo del incendio para luego ahogarse en el mar -- propele la narración, vinculando los momentos más álgidos de la historia con aquellas miniaturas domésticas que dotan de cuerpo y personalidad a una vida." -- Proporcionada por la editorial. -- Contiene algo de lenguaje ofensivo.
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| Medium |
Digital Books
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| Audience Notes |
Male narrator. NLS/BPH
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Contains some strong language. NLS/BPH
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| Local Subject |
Novels
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Family Stories - Fiction - FAM
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Human Relationships - Fiction - HUM
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Spanish, Fiction. (in Spanish) - SPAF
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Titles in Spanish - SPA
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Spanish fiction (in translation) - 863
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Spanish & Portuguese Literature - 860
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| LC Subject |
Families - Fiction
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Grief - Fiction
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Mexican fiction - 21st century
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Parent and child in literature - Fiction
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Runaway women - Mexico - Fiction
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Psychological fiction
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Novels
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| Series |
Narrativa Sexto Piso
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| Call Number |
863 AFI
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| Released |
2024
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| Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2024 (Astoria Media Incorporated, recording studio)
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| Original Publication |
Recorded from: Ciudad de México : Sexto Piso, 2022. 9788419261557.
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Recorded or transcribed from: Sexto Piso, 2023.
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