Irma o esa persistente calle de París
Durii Editorial · Contemporánea · Narrativa · Adultos (+18 años)
Synopsis
It could easily have been another fake profile, the kind that cluttered his feeds constantly—yet something about her struck Pedro as different. Pale eyes, silken hair, lips the colour of red. Nothing else. Only Madrid, and a name: Alicia.
They talk on Messenger about classic films. They watch the same ones over and over and pick them apart together. Above all, they lose themselves in the rue Casanova of Paris from «Irma la dulce», Billy Wilder's masterpiece. Then one day she writes: «We may never see each other again.» His reply is a desperate «why». The messages stop coming. Pedro sets out to find Alicia—through Madrid first, and then, why not, further, wherever the world leads. Perhaps she is waiting for him on that persistent street in Paris.
This novel is a journey toward a reality that may not exist. It is leaving the past behind to spend your future searching for an ideal you have lost. It is the slow recognition that what we live day to day may be every bit as fictional as the plot of any novel or film.
Machine translation, pending review.
Technical data
- ISBN
- 978-84-125690-6-3
- Format
- Softcover
- Pages
- 262
- Dimensions
- 148 × 210 mm
- Weight
- 511 g
- RRP
- €18.00 (VAT included)
- Publication
- 20 September 2023
- Edition
- Edition 1
- Legal deposit
- M-27651-2023
- Language
- spa
- Imprint
- Durii Editorial
- Series
- Contemporánea
- Age
- Adultos (+18 años)
Classification
Amor · obsesión · identidad · realidad vs. ficción · búsqueda de la felicidad · conexiones virtuales · idealización
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Distribution: Azeta in Spain · Panoplia de Libros in Latin America · Direct distribution from the publisher
Rights
Translation rights available for all languages.
Luis Miguel Morales
Madrid, Vallecas · 1958
He has published two short story collections, La sombra de las horas and El dedo índice de mi mano izquierda; a poetry collection, Apenas lucidez; and the novels Donde todos and Cuando nacen los nombres. He collaborates with Vallecas Todo Cultura on the programme of the annual event Vallecas Calle del Libro and is the driving force behind the Certamen de Microcuentos Vallecas Calle del Libro, which Vallecas Todo Cultura has organised every year since 2014. Winner of the X Certamen de Narrativa Corta «Carmen Martín Gaite» for his story El Tiempo, and shortlisted in further competitions for short fiction and flash fiction.
Machine translation, pending review.
