El cartero de neruda summary
El cartero de neruda movie.
Ardiente paciencia
Book
Ardiente paciencia, or El cartero de Neruda, is a 1985 novel by Antonio Skármeta. The novel was published in the English market under the title The Postman.
El cartero de neruda summary
It tells the story of Mario Jiménez, a fictional postman who befriends the real-life poet, politician and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, and is set in the years around the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
The novel is based on the motion picture Burning Patience [es], of the same author, released in 1983,[1] and it was turned into another movie in 1995 as Il Postino, directed by Michael Radford.
It was also turned into an opera, Il Postino, by Daniel Catán, with Plácido Domingo portraying Pablo Neruda (premiered at the Los Angeles Opera, 2010).
Synopsis
The story opens in June 1969 in the little village of Isla Negra, on the coast of Chile.
Mario Jiménez, a timid teenager, rejects the profession of his father, a fisherman, and instead takes a job as the loc