Older Brother - Couverture souple

Mella, Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1999859340 ISBN 13 : 9781999859343

Editeur : Charco Press, 2018

Synopsis

How can we narrate grief? Can we really rationalise death? Pain cannot be told in the present, only in the past; however, Mella chooses to narrate it in the future, as if everything bad is about to happen further down the line, until something reminds him that the future actually arrived a long time ago.

During the summer of 2014, on one of the stormiest days on record to hit the coast of Uruguay, 31-year old Alejandro, lifeguard and younger brother of our protagonist, dies after being hit by lightning. Combining memoir and fiction, this novel is the urgent exploration of the brotherly bond, and the effects that death has on our inner circles. An exploration that takes the author back into his past, and right into the centre of his obsessions.

'If I can t be free in my writing, I cannot be free anywhere else', admits the narrator towards the end of this fascinating book that interweaves fiction with brotherhood and grief at the centre of family relations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Mella (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1976) is one of the key figures of contemporary Uruguayan literature. At 21, he published Pogo (1997), his first novel, which would be followed by Derretimiento (1998), recently republished in Spain, Noviembre (2000) and the book of short stories Lava (2013), awarded the Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in Uruguay. El hermano mayor is his latest book and it has been praised by critics in Uruguay, Argentina and Spain. It has also won the Bartolomé Hidaldo Prize (2017).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Charco Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1999859340
• ISBN 13: 9781999859343
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
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• Personne responsable: non disponible