{"product_id":"manto-el","title":"The coat","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving and illuminating book about grief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the author of \u003ci\u003eTen Women\u003c\/i\u003e and winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e«An atomic bomb has been dropped on our heads. We were always five sisters. Our fanatical identity has been irreversibly broken.»\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn November 2017, after years of ups and downs, cancer ended the life of journalist Margarita Serrano. Devastated, her sister Marcela found in rural retreat and writing the only way to cope with the bewilderment, sadness, and rage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThat state of emotional exception is what underpins these pages, which, as the days passed, the author wove like a mantle to cover her sister and those left exposed after her death. The result of that boldness are the exciting, sad, and at the same time illuminating notes - discontinuous like grief itself - that Marcela Serrano gathered with lucidity and courage throughout the year that followed the death of \"la M,\" a year that involved much confinement and memories, some music, and no self-pity. \u003ci\u003eEl manto\u003c\/i\u003e is her most personal book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«A book born from heartbreak, with a still bleeding wound, with guts and heart at the same time. The result is a beautiful and lucid work about loss, in which there is also room for hope.»\u003cbr\u003eAscensión Rivas, \u003ci\u003eEl Cultural\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«A work of mourning, reflection, and remembrance. [...] Honest and excellent pages, in which the renunciation of literary imposture does not prevent, however, the emergence of distinct and valuable tonal registers, from the narrative to the descriptive, from the evocative to the confessional.»\u003cbr\u003eIñkai Ezkerra, \u003ci\u003eEl Diario Vasco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«She facing writing, alone. The most personal of [her] works.»\u003cbr\u003eNúria Escur, \u003ci\u003eLa Vanguardia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«A book that accompanies you.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcelsior\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«An album of memories, where pain coexists with festive moments and literary references.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilenio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«A personal and family journey that traverses the history of Chile.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Tercera \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Marcela Serrano is an heiress of Scheherazade... Thanks to writers like Marcela, life will never have its last word.»\u003cbr\u003eCarlos Fuentes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Her ideals and heart are furnished with a firmness capable of avoiding all contradictions.»\u003cbr\u003eÁngela López, \u003ci\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«As in other novels by the Chilean writer, the primary interest lies in the creation of female characters, meticulously and balancedly delineated.»\u003cbr\u003eRicardo Senabre, \u003ci\u003eEl Cultural\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«One of the most recognized writers in the Spanish language.»\u003cbr\u003eDiego Garzón, \u003ci\u003eSemana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«In the Hispanic American literary world, the Chilean Marcela Serrano is one of the writers who best knows how to address female themes.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Nación\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marcela Serrano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536064545016,"sku":"9788420439358","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/AL39358.jpg?v=1671632529","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/manto-el","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}