by Antonio Skármeta · El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498159882
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«El cartero de Neruda» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta, published by El País in hardback (140 pages, in Spanish).
In Isla Negra, Mario Jiménez, a young fisherman, becomes a postman and discovers that his only client is the poet Pablo Neruda. From their friendship is born his interest in poetry, which he tries to use to win over his beloved, in a Chile of the seventies marked by political tension.
This 2008 edition belongs to El País's Bestsellers Collection. «El cartero de Neruda» was originally published as «Ardiente paciencia» in 1985.
For readers of Latin American fiction and stories about poetry, friendship and love in Chile in the seventies.
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.
