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Learning To Lose

By David Trueba

Learning To Lose Contemporary literature

Learning To Lose

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It is the day of Sylvia?s 16th birthday and her life as an adult is about to begin ? not with the party she had been planning, but with a car-crash. At the wheel is a talented young footballer, just arrived from Buenos Aires, and set for stardom on and off the pitch.As their destinies collide, elsewhere in the city Sylvie?s father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair. Set against the maze of Madrid?s congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions.Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, and ? above all ? a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together, and holds the reader fast.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
592
Release Date:
2011-06-02
Publication Date:
2011-06-02
Publisher:
Granta Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1846272068
ISBN13:
9781846272066
Weight:
432 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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