Title : This Too Shall Pass - Milena Busquets - Book
Summary :
It's summer, Blanca's favorite season. After her mother's death, she leaves Barcelona to settle in the family vacation home in Cadaqués. In this land rich with memories of her childhood, under the Mediterranean sun, she seeks peace. But she doesn't leave alone; a disparate and unlikely group accompanies her: her two ex-husbands, the sons she had with them, her friends Sofía and Elisa, her lover Santi, and, of course, her deceased mother, to whom she never stops talking beyond death, so difficult and unacceptable is this loss. Swimming, boat rides, and naps in the hammock will follow one another, as will those long summer dinners during which words are exchanged as easily as joints or love. Memories then surface, intertwining past and present. Blanca thinks back to that whimsical mother, the free and demanding intellectual she loved so much and hated so much. She mentally writes him a silent and intense letter in which she tries to take stock as honestly as possible of their painfully complex relationship. She tells him in her tender, funny, and poignant words that in the face of death she chooses elegance, lightness, life. She tells him that she chooses summer and Cadaqués because she knows that this, too, will pass. A book highlight at the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair, translated and published in some thirty countries, this second novel by Milena Busquets is a small prodigy of balance and intelligence.
- EAN: 9782070149117
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