Ordesa - Couverture souple

Vilas, Manuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0593084055 ISBN 13 : 9780593084052

Editeur : Riverhead Books, 2021

Synopsis

"A meditation on yearning, solitude, and self; a soul storm, a mirage of phantom figures . . . a book of deep reckoning." --The New York Times Book Review

The #1 international bestselling phenomenon--a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory.

A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life considers the place where he's from, and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is an audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away.

With the intimacy of a diarist, he reckons with the ghosts of his parents and the current specters of his divorce, his children, his career, and his addictions. In unswervingly honest prose, Vilas explores his identity after great loss--what is a person without a marriage or without parents? What is a person when faced with memories alone? Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in Spain, Vilas takes his work to a whole new level with this autobiographical novel; critics have called it "a work of art able to cauterize pain."

Elegiac and searching, Ordesa is a meditation on loss and a powerful exploration of a person who is both extraordinary and utterly ordinary--at once singular and representing us all--who transforms a time of crisis into something beautiful and redemptive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Manuel Vilas is one of Spain's most acclaimed poets and writers. Born in Barbastro, in the Huesca region of Spain, Vilas has published six novels, thirteen books of poetry, and has been widely published in newspapers and literary journals.

Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations include novels and graphic narrative by Tomás González, Paco Roca, Inês Pedrosa, and Aura Xilonen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Riverhead Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593084055
• ISBN 13: 9780593084052
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible