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Literature & Fiction

TRUEBA, DAVID

United States

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

It 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.

Learning to Lose: A Novel

Dramas & Plays

Other Press

From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman. Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning competition. In an instant, a text message Beto wasn't meant to receive shatters him, leaving him bewildered and heading nowhere. But unintentionally he falls into the arms of Helga, an older woman, in a cross-generational encounter that is the heart of the tale. With sensitivity and biting wit, Trueba crafts a story of errant souls and lost loves, humorously critiquing male narcissism, all the while showing us that in this modern age it is more important than ever to appreciate every moment and embrace intimacy when luck allows it, no matter from where.

Blitz: A Novel

Die Kunst des Verlierens (rororo Taschenbücher)

Die Kunst des Verlierens

Genre Fiction

Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH

Contemporary

Rowohlt Taschenbuch

Abierto toda la noche (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)

Literary

Editorial Anagrama

Cuatro amigos

Sylvia cumple 16 anos el dia en que comienza esta novela. Para celebrarlo organiza una falsa fiesta que solo tiene un invitado. Horas despues sufrira un accidente que, aun no lo sabe, significara su brusca entrada en la vida adulta. Su padre, Lorenzo, es un hombre separado que trata de tapar los agujeros que el abandono de su mujer y el fracaso laboral han causado en su rutina. Ariel Burano es un joven jugador de futbol que deja Buenos Aires para fichar por un equipo espanol. La caja de los triunfos no parece dificil de abrir para su superdotada pierna izquierda y sera cuestion de tiempo que el estadio coree su nombre. El anciano Leandro, en cambio, es precisamente tiempo lo que no tiene. Esta en esa edad, como le dice un conocido, donde uno asiste a mas entierros que nacimientos, cuando ya casi nada se construye y casi todo se derrumba. Estos son los cuatro personajes principales, con las relaciones entre ellos se trenza un apasionante relato de supervivientes. Una mirada inteligente, capaz de extraer humor y emocion en cada curva del camino, pero que reivindica, por encima de todo, la maravillosa aventura de vivir. / Sylvia turns sixteen on the day this story begins. To celebrate she organizes a fake party, with only one guest. Hours later, she will suffer an accident that, even if she doesnt know it yet, signals her abrupt entrance into adult life. Its an intelligent book, capable of finding humor and emotion in every bend in the road.

Saber perder (Edicion Limitada) (Spanish Edition)

Behind the wild journey of four friends in their twenties hides a love story. The protagonist dives into the lifestyle of his inseparable friends as he tries to escape from the memories of Bárbara, but every step he takes brings him closer to her.

Cuatro amigos (Spanish Edition)

As Ambrose Bierce said, home is the only place open all night. And in this first novel by David Trueba, the home belongs to the Belitre, a family as numerous as it is absurd. The people who inhabit this book only listen to the voice of their heart, while reason keeps an impassive silence.

Abierto toda la noche (Spanish Edition)

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