Description:
El Monte Everest, con toda su relevancia para la realeza, los exploradores, los imperialistas. Y dos sherpas, posados en un acantilado, esperando que el hombre de la cornisa de abajo se mueva.
Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.
Brief description:
Sebastián Martínez Daniell ( Buenos Aires, 1971) publicó tres novelas: Semana (2004), Precipitaciones aisladas (2010) y Dos Sherpas (2018). Sus textos han sido incluidos en antologías de narrativa breve como Buenos Aires / Escala 1:1 (2007), Uno a uno (2008), Hablar de mí (2010) y Golpes. Relatos y me-morias de la dictadura (2016). Es uno de los co-fundadores de la editorial independiente Entropía y actualmente se desempeña como profesor de literatura en la Universidad Nacional de las Artes de Buenos Aires.
Sebastián Martínez Daniell was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. He has published four novels, Semana (Week, 2004), Precipitaciones aisladas (Isolated Showers, 2010), Dos Sherpas (Two Sherpas, 2018) and Desintegración en una caja (2024; forthcoming from Charco Press as Disintegration in a Box ). His work has also been included in anthologies such as Buenos Aires / Escala 1:1 (2007), Uno a uno (2008), Hablar de mí (2010) and Golpes . Relatos y memorias de la dictadura (2016). He is one of the co-founders of the independent publisher Entropía and is a literature lecturer at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires.
Review Quotes:
"Daniell reveals a fascinating universe in scintillating prose, precisely translated by Croft....It's a stunner." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
"An ambitiously inventive, profoundly intelligent trek through highly personal experiences of lingering imperialism." --Kirkus, starred review
"Brilliantly tangential...this book becomes a viewpoint from which we can see the whole world." --The Observer