Marcos Giralt Torrente was born in Madrid in 1968 and is the author of three novels, a novella, and a book of short stories. He was a writer in residence at the Spanish Academy in Rome and at the University of Aberdeen, and was part of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme in 2002-2003. He is the recipient of several distinguished awards, including the Spanish National Book Award in 2011. His works have been translated into French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, and Portuguese. Natasha Wimmer is a translator who has worked on Roberto Bolao's 2666, for which she was awarded the PEN Translation prize in 2009, and The Savage Detectives. She lives in New York.
"This debut memoir solidifies [Giralt] Torrente's multitalented
arrival onto the U.S. literary scene." --Booklist"Part homage, part
indictment and more critical than elegiac, [Father and Son] is a
searing cry of love." --NPR.org"An exemplary memoir, in its
reconstruction and scrupulous interrogation of memory. What gives
the book such power is the concentrated force of its focus on this
one relationship--the breathtaking frankness of the author's
stubborn rancor toward his father, and the equally impressive
tenderness, generosity, and analytical wisdom achieved through his
struggle for perspective. I know of no other memoir that manages
simultaneously to express such vulnerability and detachment."
--Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait Inside My Head"A splendid
book. A story that is exceptional not only for its humane value,
which is enormous, but also because it breathes with authenticity,
or true life. A tribute of love. And an act of persistence." --Ana
Rodr-guez Fischer, Letras Libres"Captivating, subtle, and
unsettling . . . This is [Giralt] Torrente's first book to appear
in English. With luck, the first of many." --Booklist on The End of
Love"It's the leaps in Giralt Torrente's stories that I find the
most thrilling[: ] the moments of almost supernatural insight, the
unspooling of time, the scenes that Giralt Torrente isolates and
makes vibrate through the descriptive power of his prose . . . The
stories in The End of Love are a life raft and the ocean around us
is wide. Here's a hand, he says to us. Climb on." --Benjamin
Anastas, Bookforum on The End of Love"Giralt Torrente's remarkably
precise sentences are as tightly wound as violin strings . . . To
read The End of Love is to watch a master storyteller deploy every
last trick with as much grace and beauty as a cellist playing a
Bach sonata." --Scott Esposito, SFGate on The End of Love
This debut memoir solidifies [Giralt] Torrente's multitalented
arrival onto the U.S. literary scene. "Booklist" Part homage, part
indictment and more critical than elegiac, [Father and Son] is a
searing cry of love. "NPR.org" An exemplary memoir, in its
reconstruction and scrupulous interrogation of memory. What gives
the book such power is the concentrated force of its focus on this
one relationship--the breathtaking frankness of the author's
stubborn rancor toward his father, and the equally impressive
tenderness, generosity, and analytical wisdom achieved through his
struggle for perspective. I know of no other memoir that manages
simultaneously to express such vulnerability and detachment.
"Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait Inside My Head" A splendid
book. A story that is exceptional not only for its humane value,
which is enormous, but also because it breathes with authenticity,
or true life. A tribute of love. And an act of persistence. "Ana
Rodriguez Fischer, Letras Libres" Captivating, subtle, and
unsettling . . . This is [Giralt] Torrente's first book to appear
in English. With luck, the first of many. "Booklist on The End of
Love" It's the leaps in Giralt Torrente's stories that I find the
most thrilling[: ] the moments of almost supernatural insight, the
unspooling of time, the scenes that Giralt Torrente isolates and
makes vibrate through the descriptive power of his prose . . . The
stories in "The End of Love "are a life raft and the ocean around
us is wide. Here's a hand, he says to us. Climb on. "Benjamin
Anastas, Bookforum on The End of Love" Giralt Torrente's remarkably
precise sentences are as tightly wound as violin strings . . . To
read "The End of Love "is to watch a master storyteller deploy
every last trick with as much grace and beauty as a cellist playing
a Bach sonata. "Scott Esposito, SFGate on The End of Love""
Praise for "The End of Love
""The stories offer a language of how distance develops . . . and
the usual 'problems' of love seem new and alive under the
microscope of these deep, delicate studies." --"Publishers Weekly"
(starred review)
"This is Torrente's first book to appear in English. With luck, the
first of many." --"Booklist
""Giralt Torrente hardly ever delivers the expected, and his
ingredients are always top shelf." --"Bookforum"
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