Telenovela (eBook)

Gonzalo Garcia (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
336 Seiten
Galley Beggar Press (Verlag)
978-1-913111-74-8 (ISBN)

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TELENOVELA explores the secret lives of a family swept up in the final days of Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. There is Lucho: bullied by fellow soldiers for his love of poetry, thwarted in his ambitions to become a writer. He seems like a loving father. He seems loveable. And maybe he is. But as TELENOVELA unfolds, other things come to light about Lucho that are less easy to indulge – or forgive. There is Ramona, Lucho's wife: tormented by anxiety, overwhelmed by body image problems. Ramona once hoped to become a telenovela star; she secretly daydreams that she might still get her big break. She seems like an innocent. … But is she? Then there is Pablo, their son: dreamy, gentle, eager to form his own band and write some worthwhile songs. Desperate to be cool... And increasingly, just desperate. These people are deeply human - but Telenovela makes us understand how inhumane they can also be. How easy it is to be complicit in authoritarian regimes - and how personal stories can take on universal significance..

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.11.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1989 • aerobics • authoritarian • authoritarianism • Band • Bass • Chile • Chilean music • dictator • Dictatorship • Drums • Fascism • Fiction • guitar • Hope • literary fiction • Lucho • National Stadium • NO • Novel • Pablo • Pinochet • Protests • Ramona • Referendum • Revolution • Santiago • Telenovela • vote • winning
• ISBN-10: 1-913111-74-1 / 1913111741
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913111-74-8 / 9781913111748