{"id":1573,"date":"2014-07-06T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T08:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2014-07-06T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T08:02:38","slug":"el-mayor-pettigrew-se-enamora-de-helen-simonson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"El mayor Pettigrew se enamora, de Helen Simonson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/el-mayor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1575 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"el mayor\" src=\"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/el-mayor-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/el-mayor-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/el-mayor.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>In\u00e9s Otero<\/strong><\/em>. O maior Pettigrew est\u00e1 preto dos oitenta anos, e a se\u00f1ora Al\u00ed, aparenta uns dez menos. Os dous estiveron casados e enviuvaron hai tempo. Viven na mesma vila \u2013Edgecombe St. Mary\u2013\u00a0 pero a s\u00faa relaci\u00f3n \u00e9 puramente cordial: el lim\u00edtase a comprar na tenda dela. Todo cambia cando o maior recibe a chamada da s\u00faa cu\u00f1ada inform\u00e1ndolle da morte do seu irm\u00e1n. A se\u00f1ora Al\u00ed, que nese instante estaba a reclamarlle o pago dun xornal, \u00a0\u00e9 quen lle presta os primeiros consolos. Ent\u00f3n agroma unha relaci\u00f3n sentimental entre dous seres normais \u2013aman a vida solitaria, as cuncas de t\u00e9 quente e os poemas de Kipling\u2013 que se enfrontar\u00e1 con moitas presi\u00f3ns.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As\u00ed transcorre esta historia centrada nunha vila da costa inglesa onde conviven \u2013coma afastados por un rexo valado\u2013 os cidad\u00e1ns da alta burgues\u00eda e os membros dunha comunidade de orixe paquistan\u00ed. A partir da t\u00edmida relaci\u00f3n amorosa que xorde entre o maior Pettigrew \u00a0e a se\u00f1ora Al\u00ed, o lector co\u00f1ecer\u00e1 os obst\u00e1culos que atopa esta parella polos prexu\u00edzos e o racismo: un andazo que se espalla entre o mosaico humano \u2013amigos, familiares e veci\u00f1os\u2013 que integra o sector m\u00e1is reaccionario da comunidade onde residen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Helen_SimonsonW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1576 alignright\" alt=\"Helen_SimonsonW\" src=\"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Helen_SimonsonW-300x278.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Helen_SimonsonW-300x278.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Helen_SimonsonW.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Malia estar ateigada de estereotipos \u2013t\u00edpico pobo ingl\u00e9s e personaxes maniqueos\u2013 a obra lese con interese: a trama \u00e9 sinxela, os di\u00e1logos vencen \u00e1s descrici\u00f3ns, a estrutura cronol\u00f3xica \u00e9 lineal e os acontecementos que alteran a vida social da rutineira de Edgecombe son veros\u00edmiles. \u00a0A novela \u00e9 a \u00f3pera prima de Helen Simonson, unha escritora de Sussex que tivo con esta historia unha excelente acollida no mundo literario anglosax\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00e9s Otero. O maior Pettigrew est\u00e1 preto dos oitenta anos, e a se\u00f1ora Al\u00ed, aparenta uns dez menos. Os dous estiveron casados e enviuvaron hai tempo. Viven na mesma vila \u2013Edgecombe St. Mary\u2013\u00a0 pero a s\u00faa relaci\u00f3n \u00e9 puramente cordial: el lim\u00edtase a comprar na tenda dela. Todo cambia cando o maior recibe a chamada &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/?p=1573\" class=\"more-link\">Seguir lendo <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">El mayor Pettigrew se enamora, de Helen Simonson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[45,9],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cafebarbantia.barbantia.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}