Learning to Lose - A Novel (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Other Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	David Trueba
Translators:	Mara Faye Lethem
Dimensions:	205 x 138 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	592
ISBN-13:	978-1-59051-322-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	1-59051-322-3
Barcode:	9781590513224

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