Blitz
By: David Trueba ; translated from the Spanish by John Cullen
Contributors: Cullen, John, 1942- translator
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781590517840
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Literary; Landscape architects; Spaniards; Fiction; FICTION
Work titles: Blitz
Description: "From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman. Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning competition. In an instant, a text message Beto wasn't meant to receive shatters him, leaving him bewildered and heading nowhere. But unintentionally he falls into the arms of Helga, an older woman, in a cross-generational encounter that is the heart of the tale. With sensitivity and biting wit, Trueba crafts a story of errant souls and lost loves, humorously critiquing male narcissism, all the while showing us that in this modern age it is more important than ever to appreciate every moment and embrace intimacy when luck allows it, no matter from where"--
Notes: Originally published in Spanish as Blitz in 2015.