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by Jorge Franco (Author)
Tres vidas. Una única historia.
Una novela íntima y emocionante sobre la familia, las pérdidas y las nuevas oportunidades, por el ganador del Premio Alfaguara.
«Pocos novelistas que escriben en mi lengua me producen tanta admiración como Jorge Franco .
Almudena Grandes
«Este es uno de los autores colombianos a quien me gustaría pasarle la antorcha .
Gabriel García Márquez
«Él, que había caminado media vida en el puro filo de una navaja, identificó ya en su niño la irremediable vocación al extravío .
An intimate and exciting novel about family, loss and new opportunities, by the winner of the Alfaguara Prize.
"After spending half his life on the razor's edge, he detecting in this boy an irremediable pull toward vanishing." A bomb goes off and a child disappears, inextricably linking the lives of the protagonists of The Void in Which You Float. In this artful novel, stories develop one within the other like a set of Russian dolls, with a single character at their center. In the first plot, a young couple loses a child in a terrorist attack. The mother survives, but no trace is found of her son. In the second, an obscure young writer wins a prestigious literary award, navigating the ups and downs of fame far from the man who raised him - an enigmatic figure who nevertheless is full of tenderness and compassion, a would-be artist of the night who dresses as a woman and dreams of singing in his own cabaret. The third story features this same man, an occasional crossdresser struggling to make a living, who comes home to his rented room one day with a lost child, explaining that the parents died in an accident and, as the only living relative, he must take care of the boy. The three stories intertwine, growing one from another into an intense narrative haunted by those who leave us with the burden of their absence.
Author Biography
Jorge Franco Nació en Medellín, Colombia. Hizo estudios de dirección y realización de cine en The London Film School, en el Reino Unido, y de Literatura en la Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá. Ha publicado el libro de cuentos Maldito amor, el relato infantil La niña calva y las novelas Mala noche, Rosario Tijeras, Paraíso Travel, Melodrama, Santa suerte, El mundo de afuera (Premio Alfaguara de novela 2014) y El cielo a tiros. Sus obras han sido adaptadas con éxito al cine y a la televisión y traducidas a más de una docena de idiomas.
