Learning to talk to plants /
An immersive moving novel about complex grief. A woman attempts to rebuild her life after her boyfriend leaves her for another women then dies hours later. In the months after the death of her long-term boyfriend Mauro, Paula Cid, a neonatalist working in a Barcelona hospital, has become caught in a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from Catalan. |
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London :
Pushkin Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | An immersive moving novel about complex grief. A woman attempts to rebuild her life after her boyfriend leaves her for another women then dies hours later. In the months after the death of her long-term boyfriend Mauro, Paula Cid, a neonatalist working in a Barcelona hospital, has become caught in a strange limbo of mourning. Only her closest friends know that hours before he was killed in a car accident Mauro had told her that he was leaving her for another woman. Navigating the unsettled nature of her grief, obsessing over Mauro's infidelity and pursuing fraught affairs with a new colleague and a charismatic stranger, she struggles to make sense of her world anew. Told in immersive, lucid prose, Learning to Talk to Plants is a moving and tender exploration of the emotional kaleidoscope of grief, and of the awkward, unpredictable process of rebuilding a shattered life. |
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| Item Description: | "First published as Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes in Barcelona, 2018"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 251 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781782275770 1782275770 |