La Señora Potter No Es Exactamente Santa Claus / Mrs. Potter Is Not Really Santa Claus [Spanish]

Premio Las librer?as Recomiendan 2021 de ficci?n
Premio Finestres de Narrativa en Castellano 2021
Premio El Ojo Cr?tico de Narrativa 2021
Menci?n especial Premis Ciutat de Barcelona 2021

UNO DE LOS LIBROS DEL A?O SEG?N LA VANGUARDIA, ABC y EL MUNDO

«Mi libro favorito de este a?o. Me re?, llor?, me deslumbr?. Favorito total. --Mariana Enriquez

La fama de la desapacible Kimberly Clark Weymouth, una peque?a ciudad eternamente aquejada por heladas ventiscas y mucha nieve, y donde Louise Feldman ambient? el cl?sico infantil La se?ora Potter no es exactamente Santa Claus, permiti? a Randal Peltzer abrir una exitosa tienda de souvenirs. Cada d?a, la ciudad recibe a lectores de la exc?ntrica escritora y, a rega?adientes, vive de ella. Pero qu? pasar?a si, harto de un destino que no ha elegido, Billy, hijo de Randal, decidiese cerrar la tienda para mudarse a otra ciudad? Podr?a Kimberly Clark Weymouth permitirse dejar de ser el lugar que ha sido siempre y convertirse en otra cosa?

Bajo la exuberante prosa y la imaginaci?n sin l?mites de Laura Fern?ndez, se esconde una s?lida historia sobre la maternidad, la creaci?n y la renuncia, el arte como refugio y la soledad del incomprendido, en este cruce entre una novela de Roald Dahl para adultos y un alocado y digresivo T.C. Boyle que hubiera le?do m?s de la cuenta a Joy Williams. La se?ora Potter no es exactamente Santa Claus pretende hacer saltar por los aires la sola idea de la existencia del relato, o del relato ?nico de aquello que somos, porque si algo somos es una infinidad de posibilidades.

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Las Librer?as Recomiendan Fiction Prize 2021
Finestres Narrative in Spanish Prize 2021
El Ojo Cr?tico Narrative Prize 2021
Barcelona's Premis Ciutat 2021, honorable mention

A BOOK OF THE YEAR, ACCORDING TO LA VANGUARDIA, ABC AND EL MUNDO.

"My favorite book this year. I laughed, I cried. It dazzled me. A total favorite." --Mariana Enr?quez

The fame of the disagreeable Kimberly Clark Weymouth, a small city forever troubled by freezing winds and plenty of snow, and where Louise Feldman set the children's classic Mrs. Potter Is Not Really Santa Claus, has let Randal Peltzer open a successful souvenir store. Each day, the city welcomes the eccentric author's readers and, reluctantly, lives off her. But what would happen if, tired of a fate he didn't choose, Billy, Randal's son, decided to close the store and move to another city? Could Kimberly Clark Weymouth afford to stop being the place it's always been and become something else?

Beneath Laura Fern?ndez' exuberant prose and limitless imagination hides a solid story about maternity, creation, and surrender, about art as a refuge, and the loneliness of those misunderstood, in this crossover between a Roald Dahl's adult novel and a crazy and digressive T. C. Boyle who would have read too much Joy Williams. Mrs. Potter Is Not Really Santa Claus pretends to blow up the very idea of the tale's existence, or of the unique tale of that which we are. Because if there is something we are, is infinite possibilities.