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03415aam a2200337Ia 4500 001 7FB56E16276611E4AC6595EADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200828010432 008 140623s2014 flu 000 f spa d 020 $a 1622639405 020 $a 9781622639403 035 $a (OCoLC)881638472 040 $a MCCPP $b eng $c MCCPP $d IPL $d SAP $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d C3L $d JIP $d SILO 100 1 $a Franco Ramos, Jorge. 245 13 $a El mundo de afuera / $c Jorge Franco Ramos. 260 $a Doral, FL : $b Alfaguara, $c c2014. 300 $a 302 p. ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a Novel. 546 $a In Spanish. 520 $a The Outside World takes place in MedelliÌn. There, time is wrapped in a mist, and voices seem like whistles that get lost among tree branches. A castle-like structure stands watch in the overgrown outskirts of the city, and a blond girl runs out the door. Eyes watch, captivated by this unusual presence, and the girl disappears into the forest. It is 1971, and this girl's father, don Diego, has been kidnapped. El Mono is the leader of the crime ring, whose intention is to demand a million-dollar ransom from the family. El Mono has reasons aside from economics to kidnap don Diego: a romantic obsession with the man's daughter, Isolda, a blonde princess whose father, a devotee of Wagner's operas, has kept her locked in the "castle" to preserve her purity and avoid sullying her with the crude outside world that surrounds them. Don Diego, a Germanophile, is married to Dita, a German woman who left Nazi Berlin to live in the replica of La Rouchefoucauld castle that her husband has built in MedelliÌn. Since she was little, Isolda has escaped into the woods, where she played with imaginary rabbits, while El Mono would watch her, hidden in the trees. Short and uncomplicated, this novel about love and death is both poetic and vivid, with a masterful use of tension, incorporation of cinematographic techniques such as flashback and parallel narration, and the echoes of both folkloric tales and news blotters. 520 $a "Isolda vive encerrada en un castillo extranÌo y fascinante al mismo tiempo, tan ajeno a la ciudad de MedelliÌn en la que se situÌa como singulares son sus habitantes y la vida que llevan. La atmoÌsfera de irrealidad que se respira resulta opresiva para la adolescente, que encuentra en el bosque que lo rodea la uÌnica tregua posible a su soledad. Pero las amenazas invisibles del mundo de afuera se cuelan silenciosamente entre las ramas de los aÌrboles cercanos al castillo. Con un perfecto manejo de la tensioÌn, Jorge Franco construye en esta novela un cuento de hadas con tintes tenebrosos que acaba convirtieÌndose en la historia desquiciada de un secuestro. Dentro y fuera de la fortaleza, el amor, ese monstruo indomable, se muestra como una obsesioÌn que aliena y embrutece, que pretende someter, que despierta deseos de venganza y del que solo parece posible escapar aceptando la muerte como destino."--P. [4] of cover. 586 $a XVII Alfaguara Novel Prize 2014. 650 0 $a Kidnapping $z Colombia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Suspense fiction. 710 2 $a Alfaguara (Firm) 941 $a 4 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190103010655.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006083338.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180203051749.0 952 $l BGPE251 $d 20140819011615.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7FB56E16276611E4AC6595EADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search