El vuelo de la reina

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Punto de Lectura, 2006 - Fiction - 297 pages

Monteperdido. Ana y Luc a, dos amigas de once a os, vecinas de un pueblo de los Pirineos, salen del colegio y se dirigen a sus casas. Nunca llegan a su destino. Nadie vuelve a verlas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThis lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, providing vividly constructed accounts of the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead to the events of A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones. In a collaboration that's been years in the making, Martin has teamed with Elio M. Garc a, Jr., and Linda Antonsson, the founders of the renowned fan site Westeros.org--perhaps the only people who know this world almost as well as its visionary creator.

Contents

• Section 1: 9
• Section 2: 11
• Section 3: 21

About the author

Tomás Eloy Martínez was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina on July 16, 1934. He received an undergraduate degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the National University of Tucumán and a master's degree from the University of Paris. He was a novelist, journalist, essayist and critic. In the early 1970s, he conducted long interviews with Juan Domingo Perón in Madrid, where the general was living in exile. In 1975, while eating lunch in a Buenos Aires restaurant, he received word that when he stepped outside, he would be assassinated by a right-wing paramilitary group. Since there was no back door, he decided to document his own murder and phoned his newspaper requesting a photographer. When a swarm of photographers descended, the assassins scattered. He fled the country and eventually ended up in the United States, where he taught at the University of Maryland in the mid-1980s. His works include The Perón Novel (La Novela de Perón), Santa Evita, and The Tango Singer (El Cantor de Tango). He taught at Rutgers University from 1995 until his death. He died as the result of a brain tumor on January 31, 2010 at the age of 75. Tomas Eloy Martinez es el autor de dos novelas clasicas de la literatura argentina: La novela de Peron (1985; Alfaguara, 2003 y 20 09) y Santa Evita (1995; Alfaguara, 2002 y 2010). Ambas han sido traducidas a mas de treinta idiomas y publicadas en mas de sesent a paises. Ha publicado tambien otras cuatro novelas, vertidas a por lo menos diez lenguas. Entre ellas, La mano del amo (1991; Alf aguara, 2005), El cantor de tango (2004) y Purgatorio (Alfaguara, 2008). Es autor de los relatos de Lugar comun la muerte (1979; A lfaguara, 2009) y La pasion segun Trelew (1973; Aguilar, 2004; Alfaguara, 2009). En 2002 El vuelo de la reina fue distinguida con el Premio Alfaguara de Novela; al ano siguiente recibio el premio a la mejor novela extranjera del People's Literary Publication H ouse, en BeijingShanghai. Tomás Eloy Martínez (Tucumán, Argentina, 1934-2010) recibió en 2002 el Premio Alfaguara de novela por El vuelo de la reina. Su novela Santa Evita (1995; Alfaguara, 2002) es, junto con La novela de Perón (1985; Alfaguara, 2003), un título ya clásico de la literatura argentina; estas dos obras han sido traducidas a treinta y seis lenguas. Escribió asimismo las novelas Sagrado (1968), La mano del amo (1991; Alfaguara, 2003) y Purgatorio (Alfaguara, 2009), los libros de relatos Lugar común la muerte (1979) y La pasión según Trelew (1974), y los ensayos de El sueño argentino (1999). Fue colaborador habitual de La Nación de Buenos Aires, El País y The New York Times.

Bibliographic information

• Title: El vuelo de la reina; Narrativa (Punto de Lectura); Volume 131 of Punto de lectura; Volume 131 of Punto de lectura: Narrativa
• Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
• Publisher: Punto de Lectura, 2006
• Original from: University of Texas
• Digitized: Oct 26, 2009
• ISBN: 8466368485, 9788466368483
• Length: 297 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General