Open Heart
A Novel
$35.51
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2023
Summary
In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells the story of her parents—the story of an excessive love, passionate and unstable, forged through countless fights and reconciliations, which had a profound effect on their entire family.
Manuel Lindo came from nothing, but stubbornly worked his way up at the Dredging and Construction Company. Obliged to move from city to city for his job, the family couldn’t put down roots, and Elvira and her siblings’ childhood was marked by unpredictability…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635422528 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635422523 |
| Author: | Elvira Lindo, Adrian Nathan West |
| Publisher: | Other Press LLC |
| Imprint: | Other Press LLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
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Critics Review
“An excellent novel that dissects the influence of family environment and the enduring imprint of the past.” – La Raz
“The title of Open Heart gestures to the author’s courage to probe her family’s anatomy…elegantly translated by Adrian Nathan West, the narrative knits into itself, a dreamlike and reiterative bundle of crisscrossing timelines and remembrances.” —New York Times Book Review
“Lindo’s Open Heart is an exploration of the imperfect ways we love each other and how we forgive. She has done something wonderful here, given us a novel that is akin to a master sculptor’s high relief, where we see pictures of one family at different stages, with enough unsparing yet loving detail to see each life individually in all its broken beauty.” —Rubén Degollado, author of The Family Izquierdo
“An excellent novel that dissects the influence of family environment and the enduring imprint of the past.” —La Razón
“[Lindo’s] masterpiece.” —Babelia, El País
“A magnificent novel.” —Juan José Millás, author of From the Shadows
About The Author
Elvira Lindo
Elvira Lindo was born in Cadiz, Spain. Before becoming a fiction writer, she was a presenter, actress, and scriptwriter for television and radio. Lindo received the Atlantida Prize from the Editors Union of Catalonia and the Biblioteca Breve Prize for her novel Una palabra tuya. In addition to authoring numerous other successful books, including the international bestselling Manolito Gafotas series, Lindo is a frequent contributor to the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais.
Adrian Nathan West is a writer and literary critic based in Spain. He has translated more than twenty books, among them Rainald Goetz’s Insane and Sibylle Lacan’s A Father- Puzzle.
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