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Mi Vida No Tan Secreta / My Not-So-Secret Life
[Paperback - 2022]
juan manuel servin
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Biographical Fiction
Additional Category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Literatura Random House | ISBN: 9786073819312 | Pages: 448
Shipping Weight: .442 | Dimensions: 5.33 x 1.2 x 9.05 inches

Description

Mi vida no tan secreta es un fresco de familia que se entrecruza con la historia social del entonces D.F., a partir de 1950 y hasta el final del Salinato.

Es la historia de Lucio, un patriarca fallido en sus sueños de grandeza que se mira en el reflejo torcido de sus hijos menores, agobiados por la complicidad filial. Lucio es el proveedor de los altibajos y pequeños logros de su familia, marginada de la bonanza de un sistema político que derivó en idiosincrasia nacional.
 
Autobiografía sin falsos arrepentimientos, bañada en alcohol e ironía, que increpa la historia oficial de verdades impostadas sobre una sociedad donde nadie es inocente. En este relato, J.M. Servín expresa su evidente visión de los de abajo: su familia y entorno como mapa sin brújula de la modernidad fallida de un país.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

My Not-So-Secret Life is a family portrait that intersects with the social history of a city then known as D.F., from the 1950s to the end of the Salinas presidency.

It is Lucio’s story, a patriarch who has failed in his dreams of grandeur, a man who sees himself in the twisted reflections of his younger children, who are anxious over their filial complicity. Lucio is the one who provides the ups and downs and small achievements of his family, excluded from the prosperity of a political system that resulted in national idiosyncrasy.
 
An autobiography free of false remorse, bathed in alcohol and irony, that rebukes the official history of those made-up truths about a society where no one is innocent. In this tale, J. M. Servín expresses his blatant vision of the underdogs: his family and his environment as the map without compass of a country’s flawed modernity.

About the Author

J. M. SERVÍN nació en el Distrito Federal en 1962. Es autodidacta, narrador, periodista y editor canalla. Parte de su obra ha sido traducida al francés y al inglés, y forma parte de diversas antologías. Sus historias reflejan el violento absurdo de una ciudad donde nadie es inocente. Ganador del Premio Nacional de Testimonio 2001 y del Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural Fernando Benítez 2004, en la categoría de reportaje escrito. Miembro del SNCA desde 2005. Entre sus obras se encuentran Al final del vacío y Nada que perdonar, crónicas facinerosas, ambos publicados en Random House. Coordina el proyecto de Crónica Producciones el Salario del Miedo. Mi vida no tan secreta es su más reciente libro.

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