Epiphany in the desert

Hernán Rivera Letelier

NOVEL. ALFAGUARA, 2020. 124 PAGES

For the first time in his long career, Hernán Rivera Letelier has decided to tell the fascinating tale of how, at the age of forty-four and entirely unheralded, he became one of the best-read writers in Chile.
A worker in a remote saltpetre mine in Pedro de Valdivia with a very rudimentary education, the elites of Santiago refused to believe he could possibly be the author of the book that in 1994 won him one of the most important literary prizes in the country: La Reina Isabel cantaba rancheras (Queen Elizabeth Sang Rancheras).
This book recounts Rivera Letelier's incredible experiences and anecdotes about the beginning of his literary career: right from the start he sensed that his first book would change his life. This is a charming memoir featuring ‘not just novelistic flourishes, sometimes it reads like a novel full stop.'

PUBLISHED BY: Spanish ALFAGUARA

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