August, October - Couverture souple

Barba Muñiz, Andrés

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8494365819 ISBN 13 : 9788494365812

Editeur : Hispabooks Publishing, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fourteen-year-old Tomás goes with his well-off family on their usual seaside summer holiday, but he is at a stage in his life when nothing is the same. Sullenly detached from his family, full of confused intimations of sexuality, he is also faced with death when his widowed aunt, who lives in the resort, is taken seriously ill. As he becomes close to her on her deathbed he frequents the forbidden in the form of some lower-class village kids casually transgressive boys and even more alien, sexually knowing girls that will get him involved on the last day in a gang rape of a vulnerable girl. Though when it is his turn, Tomás only pretends to do it enough to save face with the boys back in Madrid, he wrestles with guilt and confusion. He finally decides to go back secretly, alone, to find the girl and apologise for what happened, but despite the moving scene of atonement and forgiveness, ambiguity lurks even in this redemption.

Revue de presse

A story that has been described as an explosive clash between Pavese s The Beautiful Summer and the adolescents of Gus van Sant s Elephant. --Daniel Entrialgo, Esquire

A novel that consolidates the author s position as a key voice in Spanish fiction. --Alejandro Flores, El Economista

One is tempted to call August, October flawless... Although this book expertly describes the experiences of adolescence, August, October is really a powerful novel about the unprocessed indeed unprocessable emotions of transition. Barba binds these least legible feelings into a series of immaculate scenes, at once allowing us to understand what also swirls around our own insides. --Scott Esposito, Times Literary Supplement

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hispabooks Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8494365819
• ISBN 13: 9788494365812
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible