Name: Ordesa
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Author: Manuel Vilas

Type

Physical Book

Author

Manuel Vilas

Translated by

Andrea Rosenberg

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.2x2.3 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780593084052

Synopsis "Ordesa"

"A meditation on yearning, solitude, and self; a soul storm, a mirage of phantom figures . . . a book of deep reckoning." --The New York Times Book Review The #1 international bestselling phenomenon--a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory. A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life considers the place where he's from, and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is an audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away. With the intimacy of a diarist, he reckons with the ghosts of his parents and the current specters of his divorce, his children, his career, and his addictions. In unswervingly honest prose, Vilas explores his identity after great loss--what is a person without a marriage or without parents? What is a person when faced with memories alone? Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in Spain, Vilas takes his work to a whole new level with this autobiographical novel; critics have called it "a work of art able to cauterize pain." Elegiac and searching, Ordesa is a meditation on loss and a powerful exploration of a person who is both extraordinary and utterly ordinary--at once singular and representing us all--who transforms a time of crisis into something beautiful and redemptive.

Manuel Vilas

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(Barbastro, 1962) is the author of six poetry collections and his lyrical work has been compiled in Amor (2010), in Poesía completa (2016), and in Una sola vida (2022). His narrative work begins with España, followed by Aire nuestro, Los inmortales, El luminoso regalo, and the storybooks Zeta and Setecientos millones de rinocerontes.

He is the author of the travel book América, of Listen to me, and of Lou Reed era español. His novel Ordesa (2018) was translated into more than twenty languages and chosen as the book of the year by Babelia and won the Femina Prize, awarded in France to the best foreign novel. Alegría (2019), translated into several languages, was a finalist for the Planeta Prize. In 2021 he published Los besos. Nosotros is his most recent novel and has been awarded the Nadal Prize for Novel 2023.

He collaborates with El País and other media.

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