{"product_id":"9788412492101","title":"THE BOOK OF TAMAR","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTAMAR'S BOOK\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Summary\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most unique voices in Latin American poetry and narrative offers us an intimate and moving account of the power of writing and time. Tamara Kamenszain reconstructs a love story based on the chance rediscovery of an old, forgotten poem. What was once silence and misunderstanding transforms, years later, into a revealing reading. Through this journey into the past, the author weaves a generational logbook where shared readings, exiles, literary discussions, and the voices of other writer couples intersect, giving shape to a book that is, at once, a sentimental autobiography and a tribute to literature as a vital experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is it about?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrator, Tamar, finds at the bottom of a drawer a poem that was sent to her fifteen years ago, which at the time she did not know how to read. That poem, composed of five letters, a date, and a drawing, becomes the trigger for a deep investigation into the past. Based on that discovery, the work reconstructs a love story marked by literature: the relationship of the couple formed by Tamara Kamenszain and the poet and editor Mario Libertella.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story expands to include the voices of other writer couples who shared the same historical and cultural context, such as Josefina Ludmer and Ricardo Piglia, Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers, or Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In this way, the personal experience becomes a generational logbook that explores the ways in which love, estrangement, exile, and literary creation intertwine. Writing is revealed as a space where time folds, allowing what was silence yesterday to acquire a luminous meaning today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMain themes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eThe power of rereading and reinterpreting the past through writing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eLove and romantic relationships as an experience shaped by literature and art.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eGenerational memory and the dialogue between different Latin American and universal writers' voices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eExile and estrangement as engines of creation and reflection.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eThe materiality of the poem as an object that endures and transforms over time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho is it recommended for?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is aimed at readers interested in autobiographical and essayistic narrative that merges with poetry. Especially recommended for those looking for a work that explores the connections between intimate life and literature, as well as for followers of Tamara Kamenszain's work and the Argentine and Latin American literary tradition. It will also be of great interest to those who enjoy stories that reflect on the passage of time, memory, and the meaning of romantic encounters and disappointments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat this book offers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eA deep and poetic look at how time transforms our ability to understand the past.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eA generational portrait of a community of writers who shared an era and an aesthetic ideology.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eAn original reflection on love and literature as forms of resistance and creation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eA reading experience that combines the intimacy of a personal diary with the ambition of a cultural chronicle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTechnical data\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor: KAMENSZAIN, TAMARA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: ETERNA CADENCIA EDITORA SRL, CUIT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: Spanish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eTopic: FICTION: SPECIAL FEATURES\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eCollection: NOVEL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003ePublication date: February 2022\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eNumber of pages: 96\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eWeight: 163 g\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEditorial review\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTamar's Book is a brief but emotionally and intellectually dense work. Tamara Kamenszain manages to turn an apparently minor episode—the rediscovery of a forgotten poem—into an inquiry into love, writing, and collective memory. Her prose, luminous and precise, flows between the personal and the generational without ever losing its intimate tone. It is a read that will appeal to those who value literature as a space for reflection on life and time, and it confirms the author as one of the most lucid and original voices of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ETERNA CADENCIA EDITORA SRL, CUIT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53407278039387,"sku":"9788412492101","price":16.07,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/0650\/6331\/files\/978841249210.jpg?v=1781851601","url":"https:\/\/kalamobooks.com\/en\/products\/9788412492101","provider":"Kalamo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}