Presentation of the book “The Silence of Irene”
- Las Condes Cultural Center, Apoquindo 6570, Las Condes.
- Saturday, May 11 – 12:00 p.m..
Editorial Forja presents “The Silence of Irene”, the new novel by María Eugenia Lorenzini. It will be presented by Marcelo Simonetti and Ana Josefa Silva.
“The consciousness of a man imprisoned in a useless body evokes an existence marked by the name of a woman: Irene. Did he never dare to live? Did life pass him by?” This is how the writer Pablo Azócar describes the novel.
The story begins when Alejandro wakes up in a hospital bed, completely immobile and incommunicado, facing a heartbreaking situation. As his mind is immersed in dreams and memories, present and past alternate to transport the reader from a dramatic reality to the moments full of passion and youth that he shared with Irene, his great love.
The book “interests, captivates and surprises the reader again and again, and presents a different vision of a transcendent topic that so many writers have tried to address, very few with the excellent results that this author achieves,” highlights the renowned journalist and writer Antonio Rojas Gomez.
María Eugenia Lorenzini P. is a prominent Chilean writer, Spanish professor and Master in Management and Administration. She is the author of successful novels such as After Yesterday (1994), Sewell: lights, shadows and abandonment (2003) and Listen, Heart (2016), the first two with more than ten editions and recommended in schools. In addition, she is co-author of grammar and spelling books widely used in high school and university education. She is currently fully dedicated to literary work.