The Past - Hardcover

Pauls, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184343220X ISBN 13: 9781843432203

Verlag: Harvill Secker, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Unusual book

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Críticas:

It soars in terms of style... Alan Pauls' finest work so far, displaying a rare intelligence... a momentous novel (Martin Schifino, TLS)

Bold and powerful writing (El Pais)

A novel that is brilliant enough to raise itself effortlessly above and beyond the level of the vices it portrays: strange art and reckless passion, cocaine, excessive exercise and other forms of addiction. (Le Monde)

Reseña del editor:

'A novel that is brilliant enough to raise itself effortlessly above and beyond the level of the vices it portrays: strange art and reckless passion, cocaine, excessive exercise and other forms of addiction.' Fabienne Dum, Le Monde

Rímini splits up with his girlfriend of twelve years, Sofía. The parting is initially amicable and he moves on, carefree, with a new zest for life. Hungry to make up for lost time and keen to forget the past, he finds a younger girlfriend and starts using cocaine.

Sofía, however, finds herself unable to let go, and continues to reappear on Rímini's horizon. As hard as Rímini tries to forget, Sofía will not let him. Though the apparently idyllic relationship is over, their love has not died, merely taken on a different form. As time passes and their paths continue to cross, the past festers and torments them, like an infection.

(2005-01-07)

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• Verlag: Harvill Secker
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 184343220X
• ISBN 13: 9781843432203
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480