by Jorge Edwards · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422684527
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«El sueño de la historia» is the novel by Chilean writer Jorge Edwards, published in 2000 in hardback, with 410 pages, in Spanish.
A narrator returns to Chile after a long exile, in the final years of the dictatorship, to investigate eighteenth-century documents about the life of Joaquín Toesca, an Italian architect who worked on the Cathedral, and that of his wife Manuelita Fernández de Rebolledo. Between archives and memories, the novel weaves passion, irony, and a reflection on a society marked by victors and vanquished.
Twentieth-century Chilean novel; this hardback edition includes an illustrated dust jacket. ISBN 9788422684527.
For readers of Chilean fiction and historical narrative who enjoy plots that blend archives, biography, and social criticism.
Jorge Edwards Valdés was a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Sebastián Piñera presidency.
