Search results for ""Author Carlota Gurt""
Sola
"Carlota Gurt va a totes. Escriu com si li anés la vida i com si no tingués por, amb una prosa ferma i fresca que vol i pot colonitzar els cervells dels lectors". Eva PiquerLa Mei, una dona jove que s?acaba de quedar a l?atur, deixa la ciutat i es tanca al mas on va néixer, amb la passió urgent d?escriure una novella, que serà una mena de remake de Solitud(la gran obra de Víctor Català). La seva vida té molt a veure amb el text que escriu: un marit que no està a l?altura de les seves expectatives, l?amo del mas que la mira amb ulls libidinosos, un jove pastor encarnat en l?amic Flavi i, poderós reclam sobre els seus instints animals.
£17.76
Sola
De la soledad nunca se sale indemne. Mei, una mujer de cuarenta y dos años inmersa en un matrimonio apático y a la que acaban de despedir del trabajo, decide refugiarse en la casa donde se crio, una pequeña masía en medio del bosque. Allí intentará escribir la novela que la obsesiona desde hace años mientras planta cara a su pasado, a un presente inoportuno y a un futuro a la deriva.Esta novela es la crónica de una rebelión, la historia de una soledad impenitente narrada en una intrigante cuenta atrás de 185 días. Qué es la soledad? Una realidad objetiva o un estado de ánimo, una bendición o una condena? Lo único seguro es que de la soledad nunca se sale indemne. Sola, la impactante primera novela de Carlota Gurt, está escrita en una prosa vivísima y muy visual que sacude al lector como una fuerza de la naturaleza.Carlota Gurt va a por todas. Escribe como si su vida dependiera de ello y como si no tuviera miedo, con una prosa firme y fresca que quiere y puede col
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Europa Editions (UK) Ltd Alone: An intoxicating story of collapse and survival
Mei is a forty-two year-old editor living in Barcelona. After years of unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, and having grown apart from her husband, she decides to escape her crude reality when she’s made redundant from her job at a publishing house. When she moves to the cottage where she grew up, hidden in a remote forest of Catalunya, she believes this to be the perfect opportunity to finish the novel she’s been obsessing over. But as she begins writing, or trying to, tragedy hits her and solitude possesses her, forcing her to face her past, an unsolicited present and a future that is adrift. As Mei’s chance encounters and new relationships with figures from her childhood seem to keep her grounded, the forest and its inhabitants take over her as she fights to finish her novel and attempt to escape solitude unscathed.
£14.99
Comma Press The Book of Barcelona: A City in Short Fiction
A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city's red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona's container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in... An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable... Historically, Barcelona is a city of resistance and independence; a focal point for Catalan identity, as well as the capital of Spanish republicanism. Nestled between the Mediterranean coast and mountains, this burgeoning city has also been home to some of the greatest names in modern art and architecture, and attracts visitors and migrants from all over the world. As a result, the city is a melting-pot of cultures, and the stories gathered here offer a miscellany of form and genre, fittingly reminiscent of one of Gaudi's mosaics. From the boy-giant outgrowing his cramped flat on the city's outskirts, to the love affair that begins in a launderette, we meet characters who are reclaiming the independence of their city by challenging common misconceptions and telling its myriad truths.
£11.24
