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Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to turn an insurrection into a government, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the United States. Adiós Muchachos was first published in 1999. Based on a later edition, this translation includes Ramírez’s thoughts on more recent developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.

Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to turn an insurrection into a government, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the United States. Adiós Muchachos was first published in 1999. Based on a later edition, this translation includes Ramírez’s thoughts on more recent developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.

They say that at the age of three he was already reading, and he was only thirteen years old when a newspaper published one of his poems, so they called him "the child poet." His work was innovative and gave rise to an international literary movement: Modernism. He is considered the most influential poet in the 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world.Dicen que a los tres a os ya le a, y ten a trece a os cuando un peri dico le public un poema, por eso lo llamaban "el poeta ni o". Su obra fue innovadora y dio inicio a un movimiento internacional: el modernismo. Se le considera el poeta de mayor influencia en el siglo XX en el mundo de habla hispana.

León, Nicaragua, 1907. During a tribute he delivers during his triumphal return to his native city, Rubén Darío writes on the fan of a little girl one of his most famous poems, "Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea."In 1956 in a cafe in León, a group of literati gather, dedicated, among other things, to the rigorous reconstruction of the legend surrounding Darío-but also to conspire. There will be an attempt against dictator Somoza's life, and that little girl with the fan a half-century before will not be a disinterested party.In Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, Sergio Ramírez encompasses, in a complete metaphor of reality and legend, the entire history of his country. The narrative moves along paths fifty years apart, which inevitably converge. The story becomes a fascinating exercise on the power of memory, on the influence of the past, fictitious or not, in the finality of reality.

«Canto que emiten los p jaros: trino. Encadenamiento fatal de sucesos: destino. Una mujer combate la soledad haciendo crucigramas. Una familia acomodada se entera de que su hijo se ha hecho amigo del hijo de un narco. Un hombre sufre impotencia y acude a un inefable ur logo. Otro ve c mo su tranquila vida de jardinero se altera fortuitamente. Todo un pueblo es masacrado en Guatemala por un contingente del ej rcito al que hab an convidado a un asado... Los relatos de Ese d a cay en domingo giran en torno a cuatro temas fundamentales: la familia y el amor, la memoria --individual y colectiva--, la muerte y la vida cotidiana. Aqu est n todas las claves de la narrativa del autor, considerado uno de los maestros del g nero en espa ol: el humor, su preferencia por los protagonistas perdedores que encierran toda la dignidad del mundo y el compromiso irreductible con el ser humano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION «Song emitted by birds: trill. Fatal chain of events: fate." A woman tries to overcome loneliness by doing crossword puzzles. A wealthy family finds out that their son has befriended a drug dealer's son. A man suffers from impotence and goes to an appalling urologist. Another man sees his quiet life as a gardener fortuitously altered. An entire town is massacred in Guatemala by an army soldier who had been invited to a barbecue... The stories in That Day Fell on a Sunday revolve around four fundamental themes: family and love, memory --individual and collective--, death, and every-day life. In this great work we find all the keys to the author's narrative style --considered one of the masters of the genre in Spanish language literature-- humor, his preference for down and out protagonists but who embody all the dignity in the world, and his ever-present commitment to the human being.

Sergio Ram rez, ganador del Premio Cervantes 2017 y del Premio Alfaguara 1998, se asoma a los misterios del alma humana en doce sorprendentes relatos. «El primer cuentista vivo en el continente latinoamericano, y uno de los mejores en espa ol, heredero de las armas de Cort zar y Monterroso. ...] Por cada cuento un mundo. --Javier Sancho M s, Babelia El juez y su Conciencia, la sin par Mireya y el tragafuegos Luzbel, el Duende que Camina hacia el trono de la calavera, el petimetre y el diablo, el ltimo combate del minimosca Gavil n, la suerte del exguerrillero Trinidad, alias «el Comandante ... En Flores oscuras, cada personaje batalla contra sus propios conflictos y esconde sus propios secretos. A medio camino entre la cr nica period stica y el cuento, Sergio Ram rez se asoma a los misterios del alma humana en doce sorprendentes relatos llenos de colores vivos y negras sombras. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Sergio Ram rez, winner of the 2017 Premio Cervantes and the 1998 Premio Alfaguara de Novela, looks into the mysteries of the human soul in twelve surprising stories. "The best living storyteller in Latin America, and one of the best in Spanish, heir to Cort zar and Monterroso... Each story is a new world." --Javier Sancho M s, Babelia In The Darkness in Flowers, each character battles his or her own conflicts and hides secrets. Halfway between a news chronicle and a story, Sergio Ram rez takes a look at the human soul in twelve surprising stories full of bright colors and black shadows.

LA NUEVA NOVELA DEL PREMIO CERVANTES Un magistral relato de aventuras lleno de humor «Su obra refleja la viveza de la vida cotidiana convirtiendo la realidad en una obra de arte con excepcional altura literaria . Jurado del Premio Cervantes Esta es la historia de una princesa de la nobleza rural de los C rpatos que llevaba una f rula ajustada con tornillos de cabeza avellanada y correas de vaqueta en la pierna izquierda. De un peluquero escultor de caballos, de barba frondosa abierta en dos alas, que cre a haber inventado el carrusel. De un factor de comercio, tambi n de barba frondosa en dos alas, que se cre a hijo del emperador Maximiliano. Y de un cocinero hablant n y marrullero que salv de morir a un dictador. El peluquero inventor termina sus d as envenenado y su cad ver es lanzado al fondo de un r o. El factor de comercio termina los suyos frente a un pelot n de fusilamiento. Y el cocinero tiene su fin arrastrado por una embravecida corriente de lluvia, en estado de ebriedad. Empieza en 1905 en la aldea de Siret, entonces territorio del Imperio austroh ngaro, y acaba en Managua en 1917, bajo la ocupaci n militar de los Estados Unidos, con una conspiraci n de final inesperado. El caballo dorado es tambi n la historia de un carrusel llegado tras un largo viaje por mar a Nicaragua, y con el que la princesa fue despu s de pueblo en pueblo, de fiesta patronal en fiesta patronal, los caballos de madera cada vez m s venidos a menos por el paso del tiempo. Sergio Ram rez despliega toda su maestr a narrativa en esta deliciosa novela a medio camino entre el relato de aventuras y el de enredos, intrigas palaciegas y picaresca moderna. Plena de humor y de imaginaci n, El caballo dorado narra el viaje desde una Europa que ya no existe hasta una Nicaragua convulsa para cumplir el sue o inveros mil de un inventor que invent lo que estaba ya inventado. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION THE LATEST NOVEL BY THE WINNER OF THE CERVANTES PRIZE A masterful and funny adventure tale " Ram rez's] work reflects the vividness of daily life by converting reality into a work of art, with exceptional literary skill." - Cervantes Jury Panel This is the story of a princess of the rural Carpathian nobility who wears a brace on her left leg, adjusted with screws and leather straps. Of a barber who sculpts horses, has a full, forked beard, and believes he invented the carrousel. Of a commercial agent, he too with a full, forked beard, who believes himself to be the son of the Emperor Maximilian. And of a chatty and charming cook who saved the life of a dictator. The barber/inventor is poisoned to death and his body thrown into a river. The commercial agent is shot by a firing squad. And the cook ends his days drunk in a heavy downpour. The tale begins in 1905 in the village of Siret, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and ends in Managua in 1917, during the US military occupation, with a conspiracy that produces unexpected results. The Golden Horse is also the story of a carrousel that arrives in Nicaragua after a long sea voyage. The princess accompanies this attraction from town fair to town fair, the wooden horses becoming more and more worn with the passage of time. Sergio Ram rez exhibits his full narrative power in this delightful work, somewhere between adventure, intrigue and the modern picaresque. Replete with humor and imagination, The Golden Horse is the story of a journey from a Europe that no longer exists to a Nicaragua giddy with fulfilling the unlikely dream of an inventor whose creation has already been invented.

«No hab a le do la autobiograf a de Sergio Ram rez, Adi s muchachos, y acabo de hacerlo, conmovido. Es un libro sereno, muy bien escrito. Mario Vargas Llosa, El Pa s Una novela del ganador del Premio Cervantes 2017 Con la p rdida de las elecciones generales en 1990, el proceso iniciado por la revoluci n sandinista contra el dictador Somoza en 1979 se detuvo en seco, y con l tambi n se difuminaron los sue os, anhelos y esperanzas de cientos de miles de ciudadanos que participaron en aquel proceso transformador. Sergio Ram rez, miembro de la dirigencia revolucionaria y vicepresidente en la f rmula con Daniel Ortega, fue testigo excepcional de una utop a que se extendi m s all de las fronteras nicarag enses. Adi s muchachos es la memoria de una generaci n que luch por unos ideales de rebeld a comunes, y que, si bien no pudo ver cumplidos todos sus objetivos de justicia, riqueza y desarrollo, siente el orgullo de haber tra do la democracia a su pa s, Nicaragua, cuando las ideolog as parecen desvanecerse. Esta edici n lleva un nuevo pr logo del autor que pone en perspectiva sus reflexiones cr ticas tras el regreso al poder del Frente Sandinista, con el propio Daniel Ortega a la cabeza. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Beyond the ideologies, Goodbye, Fellows holds the interest of that which is authentic and honest." -Carmen Rodriguez Santos, ABC "I hadn't read Sergio Ram rez's autobiography, Adi s muchachos, and I just did; I was so moved. It's a serene, very well written book." - Mario Vargas Llosa, El Pa s. A work by the winner of the 2017 Cervantes Prize. After losing the general election in 1990, the process started by the 1979 Sandinista Revolution against the Somoza dictatorship was stopped in its tracks, and with it faded the dreams, desires, and hopes of hundreds of thousands of citizens who participated in that transformative process. Sergio Ram rez, member of the revolutionary leadership and vice president along with Daniel Ortega, was an extraordinary witness of a utopia that extended beyond the Nicaraguan border. Goodbye, Fellows is the memory of a generation who fought for the ideals of common rebellion, and who, even if they could not see all of their objectives for justice, riches, and development come true, feel pride for having brought democracy to their country, Nicaragua, when ideologies seemed to dissipate.

En palabras del escritor Sergio Ram rez, compilador de este libro que re ne a veinticinco narradores contempor neos de Centroam rica, "en los cuentos de esta antolog a moderna, el lector encontrar un repaso de los fen menos sociales e hist ricos desde el mbito de las vidas privadas. Ley ndolos as reunidos, podemos tener una experiencia de Centroam rica tal como la literatura nos la ofrece, v vida y atrayente, capaz de despertar siempre nuestro asombro y nuestro gozo. Una Centroam rica que vive en sus historias, y unas historias que prueban que si algo nos une es la imaginaci n".