El funcionamiento general del mundo / The General Understanding of the World

Eduardo Sacheri

El funcionamiento general del mundo / The General Understanding of the World
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Mexico
Published
19 October 2021
Pages
304
ISBN
9786073802710

El funcionamiento general del mundo / The General Understanding of the World

Eduardo Sacheri

La nueva novela de Sacheri, Premio Alfaguara de novela:

Una historia emocionante sobre la adolescencia donde lo cotidiano se vuelve epico (Juan Jose Campanella)

-Me gusta tu idea, Benitez.
-?Cual idea, profe?
-Esa: que jugar es como entender el funcionamiento general del mundo.

El viaje a las Cataratas del Iguazu de Federico Benitez y sus hijos ya esta arreglado, pero una llamada de ultimo momento altera los planes: una deuda de gratitud, vieja e impostergable, lo obliga a cambiar de rumbo y encaminarse, con esos dos disgustados adolescentes a la rastra, hacia la lejana Patagonia.

En cuatro dias de viaje este hombre ensimismado y torpe les contara a los jovenes una historia oculta que es la suya, la suya y la de su desangelada adolescencia, la suya y la del Primer Torneo Interdivisional de Futbol del Colegio Nacional Normal Superior Arturo Del Manso, jugado en 1983. Y ese torneo de futbol, con sus arbitrariedades, con sus trampas, con sus mezquindades pero tambien con sus grandezas, con sus luces y con sus sombras, sera para este muchacho de quince anos un laboratorio de la vida, del que saldra transformado.

Bajo la forma de un relato de viaje, de una novela de iniciacion, Eduardo Sacheri nos atrapa en una historia emocionante sobre los vinculos humanos y nos muestra como en el inmenso friso del poder puede recortarse de pronto una figura generosa capaz de cambiar el curso de una vida.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The new Sacheri novel, Alfaguara Novel Prize, is an exciting story about adolescence, where the mundane becomes epic (Juan Jose Campanella).

-I like that idea, Benitez.
-Which one, prof?
-That one, that playing is like getting the general understanding of the world.

Everything is settled for Federico Benitez’ holiday to Iguazu Falls with his sons, but a last-minute call will alter their plans. A long-standing and pressing debt of gratitude forces him to change course and head to distant Patagonia, dragging two upset teenagers along with him.

In a four-day journey, this absent-minded and clumsy man will share his own hidden story with his teenage boys, the story of his own adolescence, of the First Interdivisional Soccer Tournament at the National School for Higher Education Arturo del Manso , played in 1983. This soccer tournament, along with its arbitrariness, tricks, and pettiness, but also its greatness, its bright and dark sides, will be a laboratory of life for that kid, and he will come out transformed.

Under the guise of a travelogue, of a coming-of-age story, Eduardo Sacheri captivates us with an exciting tale about human bonds, showing us how even in the immense frieze of power we may suddenly come across a generous figure, able to change the
course of a life.

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