Una noche con Sabrina Love
Pedro Mairal
FICTION | 2015 | 115 pages
WINNER OF THE 1998 CLARIN PRIZE
Daniel Montero, the protagonist of this award-winning novel is seventeen years old. He spends his nights watching porn movies featuring the porn star of the moment:Sabrina Love. That's why, when he wins a contest to spend a night with Sabrina Love, he feels like he has reached heaven. While Sabrina awaits him in a hotel room in Buenos Aires, Daniel undertakes the perilous journey to the capital, along which he will encounter a unique cast of characters who will teach him valuable lessons in sex, love, fear and risk.
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“The list of virtues of Una noche con Sabrina Love is not short. If the first commandment of literature is to be willing to let yourself go, Mairal is a safe bet.”
“A novel that produces a misleading sense of ease. The narrative agility and humor bring a cinematographic rhythm to the action that can obscure other levels of reading—where the lightness of anecdotes transforms into a reflection about desire, the overlap between the real world and the virtual world, the contrast between an obscene exhibition of death and the secrecy of sex.”
“To read Pedro Mairal is to go back to pure invention and to a place of literary excellence that Argentina never lacked. ”
“Pedro Mairal’s descriptions are masterfully handled: rural and urban landscapes, situations, kinds of people, introspective exercises. Everything. In Mairal we find the expertise of a classic novelist, a realist if I may, backed up, of course, by the gaze and language of a modern narrator.”
“Mairal develops this teenager’s adventure with extraordinarily fluid prose that exudes tenderness and kindheartedness, and with a sense of humor that accompanies the story from beginning to end. ”
“The immense gap between reality and desire is the literary fabric with which Mairal constructs an intense and unforgettable novel.”
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