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WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD 'Effortlessly readable and fizzing
with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful'
Mail on Sunday Dani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died.
Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip
back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from
Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city for the
deserted, archaic heart of Spain, Dani revisits the key junctions
of his life: his conflicted relationship with a pragmatic and
authoritarian father; the mystery of his birth; his school years in
the repressed atmosphere of Catholic Spain; the origin of his band
and its early successes; the emptiness left by a tragically lost
friendship; his great loves. Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving
and featuring an unforgettable cast of characters - from Ecuadorian
drivers to Spanish Bowie lookalikes - Rolling Fields is a novel
full of the grace and messiness of life: brave, exciting and
completely irresistible. Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery
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Rolling Fields (Paperback)
David Trueba; Translated by Rahul Bery
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R317
R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD 'Effortlessly readable and fizzing
with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful'
Mail on Sunday Dani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died.
Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip
back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from
Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city for the
deserted, archaic heart of Spain, Dani revisits the key junctions
of his life: his conflicted relationship with a pragmatic and
authoritarian father; the mystery of his birth; his school years in
the repressed atmosphere of Catholic Spain; the origin of his band
and its early successes; the emptiness left by a tragically lost
friendship; his great loves. Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving
and featuring an unforgettable cast of characters - from Ecuadorian
drivers to Spanish Bowie lookalikes - Rolling Fields is a novel
full of the grace and messiness of life: brave, exciting and
completely irresistible. Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery
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.
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Rolling Fields (Paperback)
David Trueba; Translated by Rahul Bery
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R454
R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
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WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD Dani Mosca is 40 and his father has
just died. Fulfilling his father's last wishes, Dani embarks on a
road trip back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse
journey from Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city
for the deserted, archaic heart of Spain, Dani revisits the key
junctions of his life: his conflicted relationship with a pragmatic
and authoritarian father; the mystery of his birth; his school
years in the repressed atmosphere of Catholic Spain; the origin of
his band and its early successes; the emptiness left by a
tragically lost friendship; his great loves. Laugh-out-loud funny,
deeply moving and featuring an unforgettable cast of characters -
from Ecuadorian drivers to Spanish Bowie lookalikes - Rolling
Fields is a novel full of the grace and messiness of life: brave,
exciting and completely irresistible.
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