by Antonio Skármeta · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408089513
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«El baile de la Victoria» is the contemporary novel by Chilean author Antonio Skármeta, published by Booket in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Two ex-convicts, a young dreamer and a veteran, ironic thief, discover upon leaving prison how hard it is to rebuild their lives and decide to risk everything on one big heist. When they meet Victoria, a dancer in trouble, their feelings awaken and a triangle of love and friendship is born among them.
The work won the Planeta Prize for Fiction in 2003 and was adapted into a film in 2009 by Fernando Trueba.
For readers of contemporary fiction in Spanish and for those who know Skármeta from The Postman (Il postino).
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, screenwriter, and director. His novel Ardiente paciencia was the basis for the film Il Postino. In Chile, he was popularly known for hosting a television show on literature and the arts. He served as Chile's ambassador to Germany from 2000 to 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the Chilean National Literature Prize.
