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The way you hold a cello, the way light lands on a Caravaggio, the way the castrati hit notes like no one else could: a lifetime of conversations about art and music and history unfolds for Nora Garcia as she and a crowd of friends and fans send off her recently deceased ex-husband, Juan. Like any good symphony, there are themes and repetitions and contrapuntal notes. We pingpong back and forth between Nora's life with Juan (a renowned pianist...

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What do I feel?" asks the narrator, Nora Garcia, as she goes back to a Mexican village she has not visited in years to attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a famous pianist who has died of a massive heart attack. This deeply moving novel is the unspoken answer to Nora's self-questioning. "The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of, " Pascal said, and this aphorism of knowing and not knowing is at the core of the novel. Employing motif...

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En el conjunto de las obras de Margo Glantz, Las genealogías (1981) se distingue por el papel decisivo que desempeña un nuevo elemento, la memoria, que añade al libro una sorprendente y cautivadora profundidad, un entrañable sentimiento de intimidad. Autobiografía familiar, Las genealogías (Premio Magda Donato) rastrea en los orígenes centroeuropeos de los Glantz, sigue los pasos de la forzada peregrinación, asiste al arraigo y al florecimient...

Una violonchelista llamada Nora Garc?a asiste al funeral, a la misa de cuerpo presente y al entierro de su ex-esposo, Juan, afamado pianista y erudito eg?latra que muri? de un infarto de miocardio.