Ordesa (Hardcover, Main)

Ordesa - a small Spanish town in the Pyrenees - is where our narrator was born, a place his father loved dearly, a place suffused with memories. Now, forty-six years later, he returns to the valley with his own children on a summer vacation. His parents are dead, his marriage has ended and he's struggling to piece together the bits of himself. Single and living in an apartment he hates, clinging to snatched moments of quality time with his apathetic children, newly sober and with his career on the wane, the ghosts of the narrator's family besiege him, but also bring him hope. Out of despair, he writes this chronicle, this homage, this memoir of his family: grandparents whose photos were never taken, whose funerals were never attended, parents unable to show their love. Maybe the tragedy of life itself is not death, but truly realising the importance of family only once they've passed. Perhaps this trip to Ordesa can help him fall in love with life - his life - once more. A masterwork of autofiction from Spanish literary icon Manuel Vilas, Ordesa is a deeply moving meditation on identity, nationality, family, loss and the passing of time.

General

Imprint:	Canongate Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2020
Authors:	Manuel Vilas
Translators:	Andrea Rosenberg
Dimensions:	220 x 144 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	304
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-78689-731-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Spanish
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-78689-731-8
Barcode:	9781786897312

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