Alberto Fuguet Bücher

Erdbeben sind die einzige große Leidenschaft im Leben des Seismologen Beltrán Soler. Doch nach der Begegnung mit einer Unbekannten klafft plötzlich ein Riss in seiner wohlgeordneten Innenwelt. Nach einer Zwischenlandung in Los Angeles beginnt er, seiner verlorenen Kindheit in den 60er und 70er Jahren nachzuforschen. Das Vehikel für seine Erinnerungsreise: die Filme, die er einst im Kino gesehen hat. Alberto Fuguets Roman ist zugleich Hommage an das Kino, bewegende Familiengeschichte und beeindruckender Bilderbogen über das Kalifornien der beginnenden Beat-Ära und das Chile des Pinochet-Regimes. Mit Ironie und Sensibilität erzählt Fuguet die Kindheitsgeschichte eines Mittelschichthelden, der zwischen zwei Flugstrecken versucht, seinem bindungs- und beziehungslosen Dasein auf die Spur zu kommen.

Incesante historia de aventuras de un aprendiz de periodista.

On September 3, 1980, just a week before a pivotal referendum on dictator Augusto Pinochet's new constitution, Santiago is rife with tension. The city is politically divided: the right-wing majority, including wealthy businessmen and bribed citizens, supports Pinochet, while the left-wing minority, comprising principled poor individuals and radical university students, vehemently opposes him. Amidst military curfews, disappearances, and riots, seventeen-year-old Matias Vicuna navigates this chaotic landscape. A privileged rich kid attending a prestigious private school, Matias is disillusioned with Chilean politics and life itself. His family is affluent but troubled; his parents' marriage is strained, and his sisters are self-absorbed. Burdened by an ugly family secret, Matias feels lost. He is infatuated with a beautiful girl who shows little interest in him and seeks solace in alcohol and drugs. During a school trip to Rio de Janeiro, he engages in a brief romance with Cassia, experiments with cocaine, and meets secretly with Flora, a leftist teacher. As the referendum approaches, Matias's life spirals further out of control. After running away and hiding in a hotel, he returns to find his family fractured, his aunt deceased from an overdose, and the dictator still in power. Matias's life is irrevocably altered.