{"title":"Jordi Soler","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-ultima-hora-do-ultimo-dia","title":"The last hour of the last day","description":"\"A skillful adaptation of the drama of exile.\" El País Born to Catalan parents, Jordi Soler became one of the brightest stars of the Mexican media scene: as a host of the Rock 101 radio station, a chronicler of the country's music scene, a journalist, and an author of novels, poems, and short stories, he knew how to blend philosophical and pop culture elements into his writing like few others. Always with a dizzying pace and a humorous flair. In THE LAST HOUR OF THE LAST DAY, chosen book of the year by the Mexican newspaper La Reforma, the author returns to the setting of his childhood and retraces the trajectory of the Spanish exiles who settled in the torrid province, evoking their memories to create an original work of fiction. A Catalan family, naively awaiting Franco's fall, seeks exile in the densest Mexican jungle. At the La Portuguesa farm, the group gradually takes root, trying to adapt to a habitat where the rules are reinvented every day. Where only what already exists survives. The oppressive atmosphere of the native forest harbors priceless characters. The protagonist, who, in one of the most surprising existential adventures ever told, discovers the permeable parts and paradoxes of two worlds—the one to come and the one already existing—in the same place; Marianne, the aunt suffering from a mental disorder, a character who seems to have stepped out of a Faulkner novel; the Indians, who knew the jungle's resistance to accepting strangers; an elephant. All exist in the memories of the hero, who returns after years to the place where he grew up, with the mission of solving bureaucratic problems. Human behavior in the face of the cruelty of madness, the intensity of the jungle, the inevitable social differences, and life itself are some of the elements Jordi Soler uses in this splendid novel of extraordinary situations and characters. A tale based on the author's experience in Veracruz, but which simultaneously flirts with magical surrealism, in a kind of Macondo by García Márquez.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159952507132,"sku":"9788501084637","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9c1cc9ea3f2f2bb341d8241bfeee595c.jpg?v=1778326038"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/jordi-soler.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}