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El año del verano que nunca llegó The Year That Summer Never Came WILLIAM OSPINA PUBLISHED BY: Spanish PEGUIN Praise for WILLIAM OSPINA (English)

“El año del verano que nunca llegó (The Year That Summer Never Came) by William Ospina, an extraordinary text that is at once an essay, a novel and a travel book” Santiago Gamboa, El Espectador

“The reader is spellbound from the memorable beginning to the final page.” Carlos Pardo, El País

“William Ospina is, perhaps, the most important contemporary Colombian writer.” Edwin Cruz Rodríguez

“There are few pleasures in life that match that of listening to the writing of William Ospina” Juan Cruz Ruiz

"His literary excellence is founded in solidly structured chapters and robust language" Graciela Maturo

"The most important book of the year". Gabriel García Márquez on Ursúa

“No-one today writes prose as splendid as that of Ospina in Ursúa”. , El Tiempo on Ursúa

The brightest night “El libro oscila entre la novela, el ensayo y el diario de viajes, los P. Unamuno del propio Ospina para seguir el rastro de estos personajes El Mundo (Spain) memorables en cuya red de correlaciones él acaba por sentirse incluido. (…) El poeta y novelista confía en que pueda "ser las tres cosas a June 13th, 2015 la vez" y considera 'El año del verano que nunca llegó' una Hyperlink indagación sobre si algo más poderoso que el azar gobierna lo que vemos como arbitrario y caprichoso.” La noche en que nacieron ‘’ y ‘El vampiro’ surgió una nueva belleza Winston Manrique El País(Spain)

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“El año del verano que nunca llegó (The Year That Summer Never Came) is a journey into the gestation of myths that responded to the rebellions of their time, creating a cultural, social, literary, political and intellectual portrait of the Romantic period and its effects.” Ospina, Frankenstein y otros monstruos Carlos Pardo “The reader is spellbound from El País (Spain) the memorable beginning to the final page.” June 23th, 2015 Hyperlink William Ospina: “La pura obsesión me “This is the first time that I have ever found llevó a escribir este libro” myself obliged to make myself a character in Alberto Gordó one of my books. I truly felt that this book El Cultural(Spain) required it of me. I didn’t do it as a literary experiment but as a personal adventure in which all I did was allow myself to be carried June 12th, 2015 away by my own curiosity.” Hyperlink ‘El año del verano que nunca llegó’, “Like Henry James, William Ospina makes el nuevo libro de William Ospina literary life an active, attractive subject, Dasso Saldívar flitting between reality and fiction; like Heine El Tiempo () he sets out along different paths searching for a work, or at least hoping to bump into it; and like De Quincey and Emerson he April 10th, 2015 makes aesthetic and intellectual pleasure Hyperlink inseparable concepts in a strange and luminous book.” William Ospina, , Joyce Santiago Gamboa El Espectador (Colombia) “I can think of no better way of commemorating the first anniversary of Garcia Marquez’s death than to discuss a good book, which is convenient because I’ve just read, in one sitting, El April 17th, 2015 año del verano que nunca llegó (The Year That Summer Never Hyperlink Came) by William Ospina, an extraordinary text that is at once an essay, a novel and a travel book, focused on the compelling story of the Diodati Villa, the legendary house on the outskirts of Geneva on the shore of Lake Lemán where one night in the June of 1816, , Percy Shelley and his wife Mary , the young doctor John Polidori and Claire Clermont all gathered together.” El Año del Verano que Nunca llegó Maria Paz Gómez Gaviria La Tarde (Colombia)

May 31th, 2015 ““El Año del Verano que Nunca Llegó” representa una rigurosa investigación con tono literario que aborda las historias de Hyperlink personajes que se remontan dos siglos atrás como es el caso de Byron y Shelley.”