num_pages: 256
description: Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, he is isolated from other people and he begins to question his work and the politics of South Africa.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Atrapa la vida
titlecomplete: Atrapa la vida
genres: Short Stories, Nobel Prize, South Africa, Family, Africa, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 630
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist
publisher: BRUGUERA (SELLO)