Health & Personal Development
5h 21m
by Gabriela Couturier
Description
5h 21m is a literary essay that reflects upon running and marathons, trying to answer essential questions, such as: why and to what purpose does a person put on a pair of sneakers and runs.
This is not a training manual or a book about the techniques of long distance running. Using running as a prop, the author talks about issues of youth, health, travels, and death. This is also an excercise in creative writing, and how it intersects with certain types of athletic pursuits.
Also, the title refers to the 5 hours and 21 minutes which were the authors first registered time running the marathon’s distance of 26.2 miles.
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Author Biography
Gabriela Couturier has an MBA from Harvand and a B.A. from El Colegio de México. A citizen of the world, she has lived and studied in Mexico, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Cyprus, and worked as a consultant and entrepreneur in Boston, Cyprus and Mexico. She is a frequent contributor to several magazines and academic publications.
She is the author of two novels: Esa otra orfandad, Cal & Arena, 2016; and Siempre un destierro, Oceano, 2019, and has several unpublished short stories, essays and a YA novel. Siempre un destierro was recently translated into French and published in 2023 as Déracinements by the La Fontaine de Siloé imprint.
5h 21m is her latest unpublished essay.
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- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- Pages70
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language Title5h 21m
