LIGHT RAIN
by LUIS LANDERO
Description
A family tale that drags the reader inexorably toward an unpre-dictable ending, named best book in 2019 by Babelia-El País, El Cultural-El Mundo, Forbes and La Esfera de Papel / Audiovisual rights sold to Alea Media, producer of Patria for HBO
After a long time without seeing them, Gabriel decides to call his sisters and bring the whole family together to celebrate their mother’s eightieth birthday and try to heal the old wounds they all harbor and that have pushed them apart through the years. Aurora, sweet and even-keeled Gabriel’s wife, the confidante of everyone, the only one who knows how many of the demons from the past are still alive, tries to dissuade him, afraid that this attempted reconciliation will fatally aggravate the conflicts they have repressed up to now. The first phone call leads to others, to conversations that start off innocently and veer further and further into rage, and this introduces us to the lives of Sonia, Andrea, Horacio, Aurora, Gabriel himself, and their mother, showing the family history from the siblings’ childhoods up to the present day. Just as Aurora feared, old disagreements reappear like a light rain that threatens to turn into a storm and sweep them all away. Light Rain is the most moving and unforgettable novel by Luis Landero, with a force and determination that destine it to be a classic.
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“Light Rain is an exceptional novel that speaks to us of family secrets turned to demons in darkness, in the abyss. Landero has become our Dostoevsky. Landero strikes at our soul, our heart, our eyes, our mouth, our face, our liver. Landero is one of the great world writers.” Manuel Vilas
“With the admirable prose we have grown accustomed to, Light Rain takes us into the tortuous mazes of family relationships, of nagging memories, and of unanswered dreams. It’s difficult for the reader not to be dragged away by the whirlwind of this intense novel.” Fernando Aramburu
«It is the dialogue technique. No. It is the humanity of the characters. No. It is the swift but delicate prose, like a cat. No. It is the tragedy, in the end it is always the tragedy. I do not know what it is. But this novel abducted me in its crater, from which I have not yet fully emerged. » Santiago Roncagliolo
“Moving fiction of great emotional heft, with dialogue that pushes the reader deep into the inner workings of the desolation of a family as it falls apart… An excellent novel.” Jesús Ferrer, La Razón
“An admirably written book about a hellish circle of secrets… with a splendid ending.” José Carlos Mainer, Babelia (El País)
“A masterpiece that no lover of quality literature can afford to miss… Landero has written his best novel, classic but also contemporary, a tragedy of our time, moving, lucid, with a brilliantly rendered cast of characters…” Concha D’Olhaberriague, El Imparcial
“Light Rain is not only a good book, it is eminently recommendable for those who want to understand life, especially in Spain… the novel is an enormous metaphor, like Madame Bovary or The Brothers Karamazov.” Juan Cruz, El Día
“A novel of dialogues like the strumming of a guitar, with chords that strike at your heart.” Antonio G. Iturbe, Mercurio
“Perhaps Landero’s best novel... A splendid work. Another excellent book by the great Landero.» J.M. Pozuelo Yvancos, Abc Cultural
Author Biography
Luis Landero (Alburquerque, 1948) has a degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the Complutense University in Madrid. He worked as a literature teacher in the School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid and was a visiting professor at Yale University. He made a successful literary debut in 1989 with the novel Juegos de la edad tardía (Critics Prize and National Fiction Prize in 1990), which was followed by Caballeros de fortuna, El mágico aprendiz, El guitarrista, Hoy, Júpiter (XIV Arcebispo Juan de San Clemente Prize in 2009), Retrato de un hombre inmaduro, Absolución (best Spanish novel of the year by the literary critics of El País) and El balcón en invierno (Dulce Chacón Prize 2015, Book of the year 2015 by the Booksellers Association in Madrid, best novel of 2014 by El Cultural, and one of the best books of the year according to El País, El Correo and Qué Leer). His previous novel La vida negociable was awarded the Madrid Cultural Prize for Literature 2017.
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- Publisher TUSQUETS EDITORES
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788490666562
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- Pages268
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLLUVIA FINA
- Copyright Year2019
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