El año del verano que nunca llegó
“The Year of the Summer That Never Came” (title translated by AI)
William Ospina (born 1954)
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In 1815 Tambora, a volcano in Indonesia, blew apart, and the following year Europe went without its summer. That June, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin, John Polidori and others gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva for a few ghostly days, and Byron challenged the company to invent tales of horror; the game produced Frankenstein and The Vampyre. The narrator, a writer who travels from one literary festival to the next, cannot explain why the figures of that sunless season haunt him. Moving between travel journal, essay, memoir and historical fiction, his inquiry traces the threads of chance that tie the eruption, a tsunami on Bali, an epidemic in India and floods in China to the Romantics' lives and to his own.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 295 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland, 1816
- First published
- 2015 by Literatura Random House
- Author's age
- 61 when first published
- ISBN
9789588894379 (original)