Agatha

Bomann, Anne Cathrine

Parenting & Relationships

Sceptre

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family. Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists of brief conversations with his meticulous secretary Madame Surrugue, who has reigned over the clinic for more than thirty years. The two of them have no relationship outside the office, where everything runs smoothly and uneventfully. Until one day, that is, when a young German woman called Agatha arrives and demands to see the doctor and he soon realizes that underneath her fragile exterior is a strong and fascinating woman. The doctor and Agatha embark upon a course of therapy together, a process that forces the doctor to confront his fear of true intimacy outside the clinic. But is it too late to reconsider your existence as a 71-year-old? Praise for Agatha : "Charming, funny and packed with insight." â Irish Times "This short, uplifting book brings us a more fully-realised character than most authors could manage with three times the room, and some painfully hard-won moments of genuine human contact in an arid life." â The National

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Book*hug Press

How much grief is too much? How far should we go to avoid pain? From the author of the international bestselling novel Agatha comes a literary thriller about grief, love, science, and societal norms. A Danish university research group is finishing its study of a new medicine, Callocain: the world's first pill for grief. But psychology professor Thorsten Gjeldsted suspects that someone has manipulated the numbers to hide a disturbing side effect. When no one believes him, he teams up with two young students to investigate: Anna, who has recently experienced traumatic grief herself, and Shadi, whose statistical skills might prevent her from living a quiet life in the shadows. Together, these sleuthing academics try to discover what's really happening before the drug is released to the entire population. Blue Notes is brimming with ethical and existential ideas about the search for identity and one's place in the world, while offering a highly original literary adventure that ultimately underscores the healing power of love.

Blue Notes (Literature in Translation Series)

Genre Fiction

Agathe

La Peuplade

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

hanserblau

Una bellísima y emocionante novela sobre la soledad, los miedos, la empatía, las relaciones humanas y las segundas oportunidades. 
Las afueras de París, 1948. Un psiquiatra de setenta y un años, a punto de jubilarse, se dispone a recibir las últimas visitas que le ha concertado Madame Surrugue, su fiel secretaria durante más de tres décadas. El anciano ha llevado una existencia metódica, rutinaria y aislada, sin abandonar nunca la casa de su infancia. Ha estado siempre tan encerrado en sí mismo que ni siquiera sabe nada de la vida privada de su secretaria, tras años y años viéndola todos los días laborables. También evita cualquier complicidad con sus vecinos, a los que elude, y por supuesto con sus pacientes, cuyos problemas matrimoniales le aburren tanto que, últimamente, mientras los escucha dibuja pajarillos en lugar de tomar notas. 
Entre las últimas visitas, sin embargo, la fiel secretaria ha añadido una no programada: la de una mujer alemana llamada Agathe, con problemas psiquiátricos previos y una vida envuelta en misterio. La cita desestabilizará el ordenado mundo del viejo psiquiatra. El soplo de lo imprevisible se colará en su vida y lo cambiará para siempre, si es que todavía está a tiempo de cambiar... 
Anne Cathrine Bomann debuta con esta novela tan contenida y breve como arrebatadoramente hermosa y emocionante. Una obra que habla de soledades, traumas, indecisiones y miedos, de aislamiento y empatía, del pasado que nos persigue y de segundas oportunidades... Todo ello a través de unos personajes construidos con extrema sutileza y una prosa depurada y exquisita. El texto avanza en capítulos breves, escuetos, que van envolviendo al lector en esta historia inolvidable.

Agathe (Panorama De Narrativas, 1048) (Spanish Edition)

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