ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Rex</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"><LINK href="style.css" type=text/css rel=STYLESHEET> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 rightMargin=0 MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0"> <DIV style="PADDING-TOP: 14px" align=center><!-- TABLA1 gray 700--> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width=700 bgColor=#afafaf border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=left><!-- TABLA2 white 700--> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=700 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=left><!-- LOGO MENU --><!-- TABLA3 -titulo nombre --> <TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=700 border=0><TBODY> <TR><!-- TR 1 TABLA3 --> <TD vAlign=top align=middle bgColor=#426fb2><FONT color=white size=6>José Manuel Prieto</FONT> <!-- <IMG SRC="t_nom.gif" WIDTH="208" HEIGHT="30" ALT="" BORDER="0"> --></TD><!--FIN TABLA3 -titulo --></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- TABLA4 -menu --> <TABLE height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=700 bgColor=#faebd7 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="center" ><A HREF="index.html"> Inicio</A></TD> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="center" > <A HREF="libros.html"> Libros</A></TD> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="center" ><A HREF="recursos.html"> Recursos</A></TD> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="center" ><A HREF="contacto.html"> Contacto</A></TD> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="center" ><A HREF="english.html"> English</A></TD> </TR> </TR><!--FIN TABLA4 -menu --></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR bgColor=#a6a6a6><!-- TR 2 TABLA2 vacia --> <TD vAlign=top align=left height=1></TD><!-- TABLA3 --></TR> <TR><!-- TR 3 TABLA2 vacia --> <TD vAlign=top align=left><!--boton regresar --> <TABLE height=20 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=700 bgColor=#f6f6f6 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=center align=right height="20%"> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px"> <P align=right><A href="javascript:history.go(-1)"><B>&lt;&lt;</B></A> </A></P></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- fin regresar--><!-- TABLA 5 principal mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm--> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" bgColor=#f6f6f6 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=left><IMG height=500 alt="" src="" width=1 border=0></TD> <TD vAlign=top align=left> <DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 20px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 14px; PADDING-TOP: 10px"> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top align=left width="60%" bgColor=#f6f6f6><SPAN class=text> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 10px"><BIG><B>Rex</B></BIG> <BR><em>Translated from the Spanish by <b>Esther Allen<b></em><br> <P><!--put text here --> Rex is a sophisticated literary game rife with allusions to Proust and Borges, set in a world of wealthy Russian expats and mafiosos who have settled in western Europe. J. is a young Cuban man who, thanks to his knowledge of Russian and Spanish, has become the tutor of the young son of a wealthy Russian couple living in Marbella, in the part of southern Spain that the Russian mafia has turned into its winter quarters. As he stays with the family, J. becomes the personal secretary of the boy s father, Vasily, an ex-scientist that J. suspects is on the run from gangsters. Vasily s wife, Nelly, a seductive woman always draped in mind-boggling quantities of precious stones, believes the only way to evade the gangsters is an extravagant plan linking Vasily to the throne of the czars. As J. attempts to give Vasily s son a general grade-school education by exclusively reading him Proust, the paranoid world of Vasily s household comes ever closer to its unmasking. </P> <P> <b> TRANSLATOR'S NOTE:</b> <em>Jose Manuel Prieto's Rex is a novel like none other. Its epigraph, from Bishop Berkeley, "Things are what they appear to be," is the first of many indications that things are not what they appear to be. The storyline might sound like the plot of a thriller: the narrator, a young, Spanish and Russian-speaking man, arrives at the home of a superrich Russian couple living on the Costa Brava, near Marbella, in Spain. He has been hired as a tutor to their young son, Petia. It quickly becomes clear that something is amiss in the household; the Russian couple are mafiosi involved in the manufacture of fake diamonds and they are hiding out in Spain, terrified of being discovered by former business partners whom they swindled. But why does the family decide that the solution to their problem will be for the husband to pose as the heir to the throne of Russia, the new Czar? And why does the tutor decide that the only thing he needs to teach young Petia, the only thing on earth worth learning about, is A la recherche du temps perdu (the Book) by Marcel Proust (the Writer)? And who is the Commentator, the narrator's terrible bete noir? Prieto's gorgeous, shimmering fever dream of a novel is an extended reflection on reality and appearance, sincerity and irony, authenticity and commentary. I won't tell you which side wins in the end.</em> </P> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Rex-Novel-Jose-Manuel-Prieto/dp/0802118798"><IMG alt=" " src="cart.gif"></A> <P> <P></A><BR></SPAN></P></DIV></TD> <!-- foto del libro --> <TD vAlign=top align=top width=300> <DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 10px"><IMG src="rex_eng_orig.jpg"> </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <TD vAlign=bottom align=right width=10> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px"> <P align=right><A href="javascript:history.go(-1)"><B>&lt;&lt;</B> </A></A></P></DIV></TD><!-- FIN TABLA 5 contenido --></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TR bgColor=#ffffff></TR></TD></TR><!-- linea roja mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm--> <TR bgColor=#800000> <TD vAlign=top align=left height=2></TD></TR> <TR bgColor=#d7f1fe> <TD vAlign=center align=middle height=35><SPAN class=smalltext1>josemanuelprieto.com <BR>© 2008</SPAN> </TD></TR><!-- FIN TABLA 2 --></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><!-- FIN TABLA 1 --></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>