by Antonio Skármeta · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408095408
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«Un padre de película» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta, published by Editorial Planeta in hardback (152 pages, in Spanish).
Jacques, a teacher in the Chilean village of Contulmo, agrees to accompany a fifteen-year-old student to Angol so he can have his first sexual experience. This initiatory journey confronts him with sex, chance, and an unexpected reunion with his father, whom everyone believed to be in Paris, and a family secret.
First title in the Planeta collection. Novel structured in 25 short chapters. Published in Barcelona on 6 October 2010.
For readers of contemporary fiction and followers of Antonio Skármeta's narrative, author of El cartero de Neruda.
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.
