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La Edad de la Punzada / The Age of the Sting - by  Xavier Velasco (Paperback) - 1 of 1

La Edad de la Punzada / The Age of the Sting - by Xavier Velasco Paperback

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  • «En resumen, un monstruo me domina y yo soy ese monstruo.»
  • About the Author: Xavier Velasco es nativo y amante de la ciudad de México.
  • 288 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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«En resumen, un monstruo me domina y yo soy ese monstruo.»

Esta es la historia del peor alumno del colegio. Corrección: de la historia del colegio. Con casi catorce años, unos cuantos apestados sociales por amigos y el boletín de calificaciones constelado de círculos rojos, nuestro protagonista sobrevive a un instituto sólo-para-varones soñando a toda hora con esas vecinitas a las que nunca ha osado saludar. Si otros inadaptados no saben lo que quieren, él lo tiene tan claro como su timidez: una moto y una chamarra negra.

Decidido a contradecir al retrato embustero del niño con su afgano que preside la sala de su casa, el narrador de La edad de la punzada busca la mejor fórmula para fabricar pólvora, combate a sus vecinos con un rifle de diábolos y bombas incendiarias, roba huesos en sus visitas al panteón, acaba con los nervios de dos padres querúbicos y de paso se deja enardecer por toda suerte de antojos secretos.

La edad de la punzada cuenta --presa de un ritmo vertiginoso que va del humor ácido al cinismo rampante-- la historia de una de esas adolescencias en picada donde todo parece salir mal, en medio de una prisa por vivir que invita a acelerar y cerrar los ojos, hasta que cualquier día se despierta en lo hondo de un auténtico infierno para adultos: allí donde la risa es un mero recurso de sobrevivencia.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"In short, a monster controls me --and I am that monster."

This is the story of the worst student in the school. Correction: in the history of the school. At almost fourteen, with a few social outcasts as friends and a report card covered in red marks, our protagonist survives at an all-boys school while spending every waking moment daydreaming about the neighbor girls he has never dared to greet. If other misfits don't know what they want, he has it as clear as his own shyness: a motorcycle and a black leather jacket.

Determined to contradict the lying portrait of the boy with his Afghan hound that presides over his living room, the narrator of The Age of the Sting searches for the perfect formula to make gunpowder, wages war on his neighbors with a pellet rifle and incendiary bombs, steals bones during his visits to the cemetery, drives his cherubic parents to the brink --and along the way lets himself be consumed by every kind of secret desire.

The Age of the Sting tells --at a breakneck pace that swings from acidic humor to full-blown cynicism-- the story of one of those downward-spiraling adolescences where everything seems to go wrong, in the midst of a frantic urge to live that invites you to speed up and close your eyes... until one day you wake up in the depths of a true adult hell: where laughter is merely a survival tool.



About the Author



Xavier Velasco es nativo y amante de la ciudad de México. Entiende a la escritura como una fechoría, cree en la amistad querúbica de los perros y desconfía de toda solemnidad. Es autor de Diablo Guardián (Premio Internacional Alfaguara de Novela 2003), El materialismo histérico (relatos, 2004), Luna llena en las rocas (crónicas, 2005), Éste que ves (novela, 2006), Puedo explicarlo todo (novela, 2010) y La edad de la punzada (novela, 2012). Escribe la columna semanal "Pronóstico del Clímax" en el diario Milenio y planea, un día de éstos, debutar como actor.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.4 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Alfaguara
Format: Paperback
Author: Xavier Velasco
Language: Spanish
Street Date: February 10, 2026
TCIN: 1008679044
UPC: 9798890986641
Item Number (DPCI): 247-20-7482
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.812 pounds
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