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Name: El infinito en un junco
Author: Irene Vallejo

by Irene Vallejo

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An essay published by Siruela in 2019 that tells how the book was invented in the ancient world, from oral storytelling and the Greek alphabet to the Library of Alexandria and the first bookshops of Rome. Vallejo sets aside the academic tone and tells it as an adventure, with leaps to the present: from Sappho and women's voices to Seneca and post-truth.

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Who it's for: For readers who enjoy books about books and the history of Greece and Rome told at the pace of a story. It puts in the foreground the anonymous people who copied, translated, sold and protected books, and the role of women in passing on culture.
Why people still read it: It won Spain's National Essay Prize in 2020, as well as the Ojo Crítico Prize for Narrative in 2019 and the Las Librerías Recomiendan non-fiction prize in 2020. Writers such as Mario Vargas Llosa and Alberto Manguel praised it.

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El infinito en un junco
Penguin Bolsillo · ISBN 9788466358293
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Siruela · ISBN 9788417860790
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