LETRAS

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires. Together with two thousand other refugees, Roser and Victor embark on the SS Winnipeg, a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda, to Chile: “the long petal of sea and wine and snow.” As unlikely partners, the couple embraces exile as the rest of Europe erupts in world war. Starting over on a new continent, they face trial after trial, but they will also find joy as they patiently await the day when they might go home. Through it all, their hope of returning to Spain keeps them going.

―Ese olor… ¿son violetas? Nunca había conocido a nadie que llevara el perfume a juego con el color de los ojos. La mujer es Misia Rothman, la bella y sensible esposa de un multimillonario del mundo de la comunicación, que cae fascinada por Artigas, el escritor de más éxito del momento, cosmopolita, mujeriego y con un punto cínico. Y el detective es Roures, un ex corresponsal de guerra,reciclado en investigador de infidelidades, a quien, tras perder la enésima batalla de su vida, le toca reinventarse desde una modesta buhardilla de Malasaña y a quien acude la joven Katia Cohen con un sorprendente convencimiento: Artigas no solo mató a su madre, de quien fue amante, sino que ha asesinado al menos a otras tres mujeres.