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El temblor del héroe

“The Hero's Tremor” (title translated by AI)

Álvaro Pombo (born 1939)

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Román, now retired, mourns the years when his classes made young people want to know more and live better. He keeps up a tangled friendship with two of those former pupils, Elena and Eugenio, both physicians. When Héctor, a young journalist, takes an interest in him, the flattered old teacher lets him close, and is soon caught in a crisis born of Héctor's past, in which he can neither act nor take sides. Faith and treachery, guilt and courage are at stake.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
222 pages in the original
First published
2012 by Ediciones Destino
Author's age
73 when first published
ISBN

9788423324910 (original)