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Seagull Books London Ltd The Worst Thing of All Is the Light
A metafictional novel about two intertwined stories of love that seek to perpetuate themselves in history.The Worst Thing of All Is the Light tells two stories. First, that of the friendship of two heterosexual men, Koldo and Edorta, through the decades of the late twentieth century in Spain’s Basque Country. In the book Edorta writes in order to try and save from oblivion his relationship with Koldo—a bond for which the word “friendship” falls short yet for which he is too afraid to use the word “love.” It is the story of two men who are in love and don’t know it, or don’t want to know it. The second story is that of its author, José Luis Serrano, in the present day as he enjoys his summer holiday in the same Basque Country and talks with his husband at length about many different things, but mostly about how to narrate the relationship of Koldo and Edorta, two men who did not allow themselves to construct the domestic life that their counterparts enjoy today. Together these stories show a love that the lovers hope will outlive them, a love that is the same even if we give it different labels.
£19.99
Ediciones Desnivel, S. L Del Tirol al Nanga Parbat
-Del Tirol al Nanga Parbat- es un libro autobiográfico único que Desnivel reedita conmemorando el 60 aniversario de su muerte, acontecida durante su intento al Chogolisa en 1957, y pocas semanas después de haber conseguido, junto a Kurt Diemberger, la primera ascensión al Broad Peak. Hermann Buhl, iconoclasta y provocador, alpinista de prodigioso talento, es considerado hoy como el precursor más destacado del himalayísmo moderno. Su ascensión en solitario al Nanga Parbat (8.125 m) en 1953, tan sólo unos días después de que la cordada Hillary-Tenzing coronara la cima del Everest, confirma a un escalador fuera de serie. Esta montaña devoradora de hombres, que se ha cebado en la flor y nata de los alpinistas europeos desde Mummery hasta Welzenbach, sucumbió ante la determinación de Buhl que coronó su cima por primera vez en la historia. El tirolés conquista la cima tras una escalada nocturna en solitario y durante el descenso realiza un vivac a ocho mil metros, sin tienda ni saco de dormi
£21.15
