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Zusatztext The loss and recovery of desire, the ambition of everlasting adventures, the earthquake of becoming a father, the flight forward . . . all these things occur in a single day (. . .), interwoven in the brilliant prose of Pedro Mairal, one of the best Latin American writers of our time. Informationen zum Autor Pedro Mairal is a professor of English literature in Buenos Aires. In 1998 he was awarded the Premio Clarín and in 2007 he was included in the Hay Festival’s Bogotá 39 list, which named the 39 best Latin American authors under 39. Among his novels are A Night with Sabrina Love , which was made into a film and widely translated, and The Woman from Uruguay , which was a bestseller in Latin America and Spain and has been published in twelve countries. Jennifer Croft won a Guggenheim Fellowship for this novel, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her memoir, Homesick , and the International Booker Prize for her translation of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights . She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery , Romina Paula’s August , Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay , and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob . She has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She lives in Tulsa. Klappentext 'A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly comic and deeply serious' Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend ' Intimate, irreverent, fast-paced and raw ' Sunday Times Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up a fifteen thousand dollar advance in cash. This small fortune might solve his problems, most importantly the unbearable tension in his marriage. While his wife spends her days at work and her nights out on the town - with a lover, perhaps - Lucas is stuck at home all day staring at the blank page, caring for his son Maiko and fantasizing about the one thing that keeps him going: the Uruguayan woman he recently met at a conference and who he longs to see on this trip. The Woman from Uruguay is the surprising and moving story of one transformative day in Lucas' life. An international bestseller, it is the masterpiece of one of Latin America's most beloved writers, translated by Man Booker International winner Jennifer Croft. 'At once a picaresque comedy and a penetrating study of a man on the verge of middle age' Colm Toibin Vorwort From internationally bestselling Argentine author Pedro Mairal and Man Booker International-winning translator Jennifer Croft, the poignant, constantly surprising and convention-defying story of a single day in a struggling 40-something writer's life as he tries to escape his marital troubles in pursuit of a figure from his past. Zusammenfassung 'A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly comic and deeply serious' Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend ' Intimate, irreverent, fast-paced and raw ' Sunday Times Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up a fifteen thousand dollar advance in cash. This small fortune might solve his problems, most importantly the unbearable tension in his marriage. While his wife spends her days at work and her nights out on the town - with a lover, perhaps - Lucas is stuck at home all day staring at the blank page, caring for his son Maiko and fantasizing about the one thing that keeps him going: the Uruguayan woman he recently met at a conference and who he longs to see on this trip. The Woman from Uruguay is the surprising and moving story of one transformative day in Lucas' life. An international bestseller, it is the masterpiece of one of Latin America's mos...
