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Learning to Lose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590513224)
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xIt is Sylvia's sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin--not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylvia's father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair with a prostitute.
Set against the maze of Madrid's congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows these four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, redemption, and, above all, a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together.
From one of Spain's most celebrated contemporary writers, Learning to Lose is a lucid and gripping view into the complexities of lives overturned and into the capriciousness of modern life, with its intoxicating highs and devastating lows.
Author: David Trueba
ISBN-10: 1590513223
ISBN-13: 9781590513224
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2010
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.60w x 1.59d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2010
Library Journal 06/15/2010 pg. 69
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Set against the maze of Madrid's congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows these four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, redemption, and, above all, a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together.
From one of Spain's most celebrated contemporary writers, Learning to Lose is a lucid and gripping view into the complexities of lives overturned and into the capriciousness of modern life, with its intoxicating highs and devastating lows.
Author: David Trueba
ISBN-10: 1590513223
ISBN-13: 9781590513224
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2010
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.60w x 1.59d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2010
Library Journal 06/15/2010 pg. 69
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
By David Trueba
xDavid Trueba was born in Madrid in 1969 and has been successful both as a novelist and as a screenwriter. La buena vida was his widely acclaimed debut as a film director and was followed by Obra maestra, Soldados de Salamina, Bienvenido a casa, and La silla de Fernando. He is the author of two previous novels, Cuatro amigos and Abierto toda la noche. Learning to Lose won the Critics Award in 2009 and marks Trueba's English-language debut. Mara Faye Lethem is the translator of Spanish and Catalan authors such as
Albert Sánchez Piñol, Juan Marsé, Javier Calvo, Jorge Semprún, and Pablo DeSantis. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she has lived in Barcelona since 2003.
Albert Sánchez Piñol, Juan Marsé, Javier Calvo, Jorge Semprún, and Pablo DeSantis. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she has lived in Barcelona since 2003.
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