An immersive moving novel about complex grief: a woman attempts to rebuild her life after her boyfriend leaves her for another women then dies hours later.

Learning to Talk to Plants

Literature & Fiction

Orriols, Marta

United States

Pushkin Press

A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city’s red-light district… The head of security at Barcelona’s container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in… An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable… Historically, Barcelona is a city of resistance and independence; a focal point for Catalan identity, as well as the capital of Spanish republicanism. Nestled between the Mediterranean coast and mountains, this burgeoning city has also been home to some of the greatest names in modern art and architecture, and attracts visitors and migrants from all over the world. As a result, the city is a melting-pot of cultures, and the stories gathered here offer a miscellany of form and genre, fittingly reminiscent of one of Gaudi’s mosaics. From the boy-giant outgrowing his cramped flat on the city’s outskirts, to the love affair that begins in a launderette, we meet characters who are reclaiming the independence of their city by challenging common misconceptions and telling its myriad truths.

The Book of Barcelona: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)

Zanón, Carlos

Puntí, Jordi

Torné, Gonzalo

Moliner, Empar

Gurt, Carlota

Ramis, Llucia

Bagunyà, Borja

Nopca, Jordi

Guillén, Francesc Serés

Genre Fiction

Comma Press

Anatomía de las distancias cortas

Literary

Lumen

La primera y esperada novela de una gran autora: el retrato de la encrucijada vital de una mujer. «Marta Orriols tiene la capacidad de fijar con palabras la fugacidad y lo imprevisto de las circunstancias cotidianas.».- Ponç Puigdevall,&nbsp;El País «El odio y el amor a veces se acoplan en una sola bola, como gotas de mercurio, y de la amalgama surge un sentimiento pesante y tóxico y extrañamente añorado. Eso es lo que irrita. La añoranza, a pesar de todo.» Paula Cid es una neonatóloga de cuarenta y dos años con una vida ordenada. Apasionada por su trabajo e inmersa en la rutina de una relación sentimental que se resquebraja, pierde a su pareja en un accidente de tráfico pocas horas después de que él la invite a almorzar para comunicarle que, tras quince años de matrimonio, hay otra mujer en su vida y ha decidido marcharse de casa. Junto al desgarro de una muerte a destiempo, Paula deberá hacer frente a la desdicha de sentirse abandonada y sobrellevar no solo el duelo, sino también el rencor. Una figura femenina que aparece en el hospital la tarde del fallecimiento de Mauro es la única que puede dar fe de que este hombre tenía ya otra vida... y tarde o temprano las dos mujeres tendrán que encontrarse. Con su primera novela, Marta Orriols se consolida ya como una de las autoras españolas más interesantes de la actualidad. Sabe poner la lupa sobre los movimientos del alma femenina y llevarnos del dolor a la ternura, de la sonrisa a la emoción. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The first and much anticipated novel by a great author: the portrait a woman's unexpected crossroads. &nbsp; Paula Cid is a forty-two-year-old neonatologist with an organized and uneventful life. Passionate about her work, she now finds herself immersed in the routine of a broken relationship. She loses her husband in a traffic accident just a few hours after he informs her that, after fifteen years of marriage, there is another woman in his life and he has decided to leave home. Along with the pain of an untimely death, Paula must face the bitterness of feeling abandoned and she must overcome her mourning and resentment at the same time. A female figure who shows up at the hospital that afternoon is the only one who can attest that this man really had a double life ... and sooner or later the two women will have to meet. &nbsp; With her first novel, Marta Orriols has proven herself as one of today's most interesting Spanish authors. &nbsp; "Marta Orriols has the ability to put into words the brevity and the unforeseen circumstances of everyday life." - Ponç Puigdevall, El País

Aprender a hablar con las plantas / Learning to Talk to Plants (Spanish Edition)

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