Breves amores eternos
Pedro Mairal
SHORT STORIES | 2019 | 288 pages
After the success of La uruguaya, Pedro Mairal is back with a one-of-a-kind book of short stories, where each one is an authentic surprise. We discover this contemporary Spanish-language author’s universe, which best reflects how men confront their sentimental relationships, with or without much luck.
These are stories in which men systematically stumble on the same mistakes that evidence them and bring to light their limited abilities with women, who have better emotional resources. Mairal has a particular perspective: incisive, tender, but also entertaining and at times perturbing, which provokes absolute admiration from the reader.
Ingenious and absorbing, these stories confirm that Pedro Mairal is one of the most talented writers in the Spanish language of his time.
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“Pedro Mairal has written a splendid book of stories that, always from his particular ironic, tender, unsettling, and entertaining perspective, are written with incredibly vivid language that is enormously pleasing.”
“With direct language and with no reservation, obstacles, or censure, Breves amores eternos doesn’t leave us indifferent and makes us remember those personal and intimate experiences that are burned in our minds.”
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