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Un lápiz en manos de una niña: el poder para inventar un otro que sea un par oâ¦una hermana
âUna niña con un lápizâ es un hermoso libro infantil que con precisas lÃneas de texto y expresivas ilustraciones pinta un mundo surgido de los recursos espontáneos para hacer dormir a una pequeña. El rosarino Federico Levin lo escribe y Nicolás Lasalle lo dibuja. El primero explica su proceso
12 de julio de 2021 - 21:03
Guadalupe Carmona
âUna niña no tiene casi nada: solo un lápiz. Tiene, entonces, casi todo. Casi todo lo que se pueda imaginarâ. Tal es la sinopsis del libro de literatura infantil
Our Favorite International Reads of 2020 (and What We’ll Be Reading in 2021)
Editor
This year, I m keeping my recommendations to the Southern Cone, perhaps out of the wistful recollection that as we face gray, blustery afternoons here in New York, warmer climes hold elsewhere.
Daniel Tunnard s
Escapes(Unnamed Press), set in a world in which competitive Scrabble is a globally televised craze under the thumb of the Scrafia (yes, a Scrabble mafia), is an uproarious novel staked on the final encounter between former world champs Florence Satine and Buenaventura Escobar in Argentina s Tigre Delta. Told from the alternating viewpoints of Satine and Escobar as they seek to flee the Scrafia s long arm, this clever novel reads something like the imagined result had Piglia turned his attentions to competitive board games. Tunnard s book is a satisfying read that takes Alfred Mosher Butt s tame pastime and turns it into a brisk, riveting jaunt across languages, crime scenes, and