Prosopagnosia

Sònia Hernández, Samuel Rutter

ISBN 10: 1912854775 / ISBN 13: 9781912854776

Edité par Scribe UK 02/b /10 F, 2022

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Synopsis :

A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have.

Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren’t made for her, she isn’t destined to have them, the only things she deserves are ugly. It’s why her main activity, when she’s not at school, is playing the ‘prosopagnosia game’ ― standing in front of the mirror and holding her breath until she can no longer recognise her own face.

Berta’s mother is in her forties. By her own estimation, she is at least twenty kilos overweight, and her husband has just left her. Her whole life, she has felt a keen sense of being very near to the end of things. She used to be a cultural critic for a regional newspaper. Now she feels it is her responsibility to make her and her daughter’s lives as happy as possible.

A man who claims to be the famous Mexican artist Vicente Rojo becomes entangled in their lives when he sees Berta faint at school and offers her the gift of a painting. This sets in motion an uncanny game of assumed and ignored identities, where the limits of what one wants and what one can achieve become blurred.

À propos des auteurs:

Sònia Hernández was born in 1976, in Terrassa. Granta named her one of their ‘Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists’ in 2010. A writer and critic, she has contributed to many publications.

Samuel Rutter is a writer and translator from Melbourne, Australia. He has translated contemporary authors including Daniel Sada, Hernán Ronsino, and Matías Celedón and his work has been recognised by English PEN. He is based in Nashville, TN, where he is a MFA Candidate in fiction at Vanderbilt University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Prosopagnosia
Éditeur : Scribe UK 02/b /10 F
Date d'édition : 2022
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good