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The movies of my life a novel

Thirty-something seismologist Beltrán Soler knows about earthquakes, but he doesn't quite grasp the notion that life, like the tectonic plate movement he studies, is in constant motion. One day he begins to remember the fifty most important movies of his life, ones he saw as a child and teenager growing up in California and Chile. As his mind ranges from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Beltrán reconnects with his past. Through his cinematic journey he ultimately comes to terms with his eccentric family's search for what makes the world physically shift around them--and for the other, not so easy to measure, cultural shifts that throw us all off balance in different ways.

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  • "Las películas de mi vida"@it
  • "Películas de mi vida"@pl

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  • "Thirty-something seismologist Beltrán Soler knows about earthquakes, but he doesn't quite grasp the notion that life, like the tectonic plate movement he studies, is in constant motion. One day he begins to remember the fifty most important movies of his life, ones he saw as a child and teenager growing up in California and Chile. As his mind ranges from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Beltrán reconnects with his past. Through his cinematic journey he ultimately comes to terms with his eccentric family's search for what makes the world physically shift around them--and for the other, not so easy to measure, cultural shifts that throw us all off balance in different ways."@en
  • "BeltrAn Soler es de Chile, una tierra que se mueve. Es, ademAs, un sismOlogo que sabe mAs sobre las placas tectOnicas que de la vida. Camino a Tokio, hace escala en Los Angeles, donde pierde el aviOn y se enfrenta a un temblor que lo remece. De pronto, las cincuenta pelIculas mAs importantes de su vida, aquellos filmes que vio durante su infancia y adolescencia en los 60 y los 70, lo acosan. Desde Willy Wonka y la FAbrica de Chocolates a Encuentros Cercanos del Tercer Tipo, pasando por las ruidosas cintas de catAstrofe como Earthquake! y los filmes futuristas de los setenta como Soylent Green, BeltrAn se conecta con su pasado y su excEntrica y disfuncional familia. De recuerdo en recuerdo, de pelIcula en pelIcula, BeltrAn descubre la dimensiOn casi Epica de la historia de los Soler. Ambientada en los dos mundos extraNamente paralelos de la suburbana California de Nixon, y el frIo Santiago de Chile de Pinochet, esta Agil y contemporAnea novela es sobre dos idiomas, dos mundos y dos familias que ven las mismas pelIculas."@en
  • "Beltrn Soler is from Chile, a land in constant movement. A seismologist who knows more about the science of tectonic plate movement than about life, he is cocooned in a world of seismic data, scientific articles, and natural disasters. Beltrn believes he can protect himself from the world around him by losing himself to theoretical pursuits, but thousands of feet above the ground he so meticulously analyzes, on a flight to L.A. -- the capital of film and the city in which he was raised -- he has a conversation that sparks in him a firestorm of nostalgia. Suddenly, Beltrn finds himself recalling the fifty most important movies of his life -- films both precious and absurd that affected him during his childhood and adolescence in the 1960s and 1970s."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść chilijska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Translations"@en
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Novela chilena"@es

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  • "Die Filme meines Lebens : ein Roman"
  • "Las películas de mi vida : una novela"
  • "The movies of my life a novel"@en
  • "The movies of my life"
  • "The movies of my life"@en
  • "Las peliculas de mi vida"
  • "Die Filme meines Lebens"
  • "Die Filme meines Lebens. : ein Roman"
  • "Las películas de mi vida"@es
  • "Las películas de mi vida"
  • "Die Filme meines Lebens ein Roman"
  • "The Movies of My Life : Translation by Ezra E. Fitz"@en
  • "Filmy mojego życia"
  • "Filmy mojego życia"@pl
  • "Elämäni elokuvat"@fi
  • "Las Películas de mi vida : una novela"
  • "I film della mia vita"@it
  • "Mit livs film : roman"@da
  • "I film della mia vita"
  • "The movies of my life : a novel"@en
  • "The movies of my life : a novel"
  • "Las Películas de mi vida"

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