Overview
«Una delicada meditación sobre la vejez, el deseo persistente y el paso implacable del tiempo. [...] Starnone se reafirma como un maestro de la literatura contemporánea, capaz de captar con precisión las sutilezas del corazón humano». —Jesús Ferrer, La Razón
Todas las mañanas, Nicola Gamurra, un escritor de ochenta y dos años, planta su silla de playa frente al mar y observa los elegantes movimientos de Lu, una joven que cada día se desliza en su canoa por la superficie del agua. Tiene la misma edad de la madre de Nicola cuando su padre se enamoró de ella y, aunque no guardan ningún parecido, el anciano no puede evitar mirarla sin pensar en ella.
Este es el punto de partida de una historia tierna y delicada en la que Domenico Starnone nos abre de nuevo una ventana a los entresijos de las emociones y nos lleva de atardeceres marítimos a la infancia del protagonista, al taller de costura materno y a la vida de Lu, en un libro sorprendente sobre la vejez y la escritura lleno de erotismo, de sutileza y de crueldad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The latest novel by the “best living Italian author” (Jhumpa Lahiri), winner of the Strega Award, among many others, runner up for the Booker Prize, and translated to 32 languages.
Every morning, Nicola Gamurra, an eighty-two-year-old writer, sets up his deck chair facing the ocean and watches de elegant movements of Lu, a young woman who glides over the water on her canoe every single day. She is the same age Nicola’s mother was when his father fell in love with her, and even though they bear no resemblance, the old man cannot help thinking about his mother every time he sees Lu.
This is the starting point of a sweet and delicate story in which Domenico Starnone opens a new window to the complexities of emotion, taking us from maritime sunsets to the protagonist’s childhood, from his mother’s dressmaking shop to Lu’s life, in an amazing book about old age and writing, filled with eroticism, subtlety, and cruelty.
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