A Poison Apple
Autor Michel Laub Traducere de Daniel Hahnen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 iul 2017
'One of Brazil's finest authors offers a meditation on betrayal, guilt, survival and the many ways in which personal and collective histories collide' - ngel Gurra-Quintana
Is it better to burn out than to fade away? An entrancing novel of loss and regret, from the prizewinning Brazilian novelist Michel Laub.
In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria, and its tragic climax..
They both had tickets to Nirvana in 1993, the only gig the band ever played in Brazil. But he was on military service and failed to join her. She was there with his best friend instead. Consumed by insecurities and tricks of memory, he continues to feel, two decades later, that one fateful night has defined his entire adult life.
Entwining this most personal story with seminal events of the 1990s, A Poison Apple circles around and back to some of the biggest questions: what is a life worth? What does it mean to really commit to living? And can we ever break free of the past?
Successor to his prizewinning Diary of the Fall, this is a beautiful and haunting novel that shows Michel Laub at his mesmeric best.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781910701478
ISBN-10: 1910701475
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 144 x 226 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Random House UK
ISBN-10: 1910701475
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 144 x 226 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Random House UK
Notă biografică
Michel Laub was born in Porto Alegre and currently lives in Sao Paulo. He is a writer and journalist, and was named one of Granta's twenty 'Best of Young Brazilian Novelists'. Diary of the Fall, which received the Brasilia Award, was his first novel to appear in English. It won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize 2015 and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016.
Descriere
Is it better to burn out than to fade away? In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria. They both had tickets to Nirvana in 1993, the only gig the band ever played in Brazil. But he was on military service and failed to join her.