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When a book is like really hard not to be tempted to read the last few pages to see how the knot of the story breaks.
But in Javier Cercas no cheating and is worth his novels, such as The Law of the Border, are antipoliciacas, the riddle of who killed who never resolved. Cartagena Young will have to eat his head answer the question of this plot, since this work is one of the nominees to win the award Mandarache.
The writer visits these days Cartagena second time, the last one was just over ten years ago to meet with hundreds of readers who will be responsible for choosing the winning novel. This is the only author who was missing in participating in these traditional meetings that held throughout the school year.
Yesterday presented his novel at the headquarters of the Foundation in Cartagena Cajamurcia under the watchful gaze of hundreds of academics, members of book clubs and larger public.
Today the students of IES San Isidoro were the early birds receiving the writer.
Later, 600 secondary school students were Javier Cercas in the auditorium of the UPCT.
The Laws of the Border tells the story of teenager Ignacio Cañas, in the year 78, whose life changes completely when she meets the Zarco and Tere, two young offenders age.
Thirty years later, a writer decides to tell the story of Zarco and what just is not finding the actual truth of the character but one that concerns us all.
With this work, the society of the 80's that was immersed between fear and hope that time marked by the end of the dictatorship and the unknown future is portrayed, the writer explained this morning in the presentation which was also attending the Youth Councillor, Ruth Collins.
The universal myth of the young offender, which still exists these days is also discussed.
ADOLESCENCE PORTRAYED
It is the first time that Javier Cercas writes a novel about teenagers in which you have to put in the shoes of these kids.
His experience as a father has helped him a lot, but recognizes that adolescence has also inspired him, an era that now qualifies as catastrophic. It's a very critical stage, in which emotions are contradictory and all live very intensely confessed the writer.
It is at that time, in which you discover life itself, the story begins when Javier Cercas through the genre of the novel learning.
It also tells the reader how the characters evolve, although the maturity of which is supposed to have to come to the author, is a Chinese story. Nobody mature, stated strongly and laughs.
These are the guys that star in these encounters with the writer through Mandarache Award.
A contest that Javier Cercas qualified as extraordinary. With these initiatives we realize that adolescents are also attracted by the literature and they are the ones that give us life stories, the writers have commented today, and is that like added, there is no book reader.
After the visit in February Pedro Ruiz García, who closed meetings Hache Award, and Javier Cercas, the Mandarache, the period of deliberation of the 4,500 young readers involved as these democratic jury of literary awards officially opens.
At this stage the reader should complete the reading of books finalists to exercise their right to vote during the week of voting, which will be from March 31 to April 3.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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