by Antonio Skármeta · Plaza & Janés Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401423468
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«El cartero de Neruda» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta published by Plaza & Janés Editores in paperback (140 pages, in Spanish).
A young fisherman from Isla Negra becomes a postman and discovers that Pablo Neruda is his only regular client. A friendship grows between them that leads the boy to ask the poet for help in winning the woman he loves, in a story of love, poetry and political upheaval in Chile in the 1970s.
The Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta originally published this story as «Ardiente paciencia» in 1985; the 1996 edition belongs to the Ave Fénix collection (no. 236).
For readers of Latin American fiction interested in the figure of Pablo Neruda and in stories that combine love and political memory.
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.
