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by Héctor Abad Faciolince (Author)
"Uno de los autores más venerados y exitosos de América Latina". --The Guardian
El amanecer de un marido, una reflexión intimista y franca sobre el ocaso del amor, recoge dieciséis relatos que abordan asuntos fundamentales de la narrativa de Abad Faciolince: el deseo y su pérdida, los desencuentros, la herida punzante del desamor.
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"One of Latin America's most revered and successful authors." --The Guardian
The Dawn of a Husband, an intimate and candid reflection on the decline of love, brings together sixteen stories that address fundamental themes in Abad Faciolince's narrative: desire and its loss, misunderstandings, and the sharp pain of heartbreak. His characters are consumed by longing, boredom caused by marital routine, jealousy, and infidelity. Among other figures, we encounter a husband who wakes up every day next to his wife, only to realize that he no longer desires her as he once did; a man who jealously watches his wife from a distance as she spends time with strangers who seem to seduce her, and a woman who writes a list of grievances in which she reproaches her husband for having stopped loving her. Melancholy and awareness of the passage of time are the driving forces behind this literary universe, created with painful lucidity by its author, in which drug trafficking and violence burst in as constant reminders of our turbulent reality. "What I read by Héctor Abad Faciolince, I keep like very spherical, polished, luminous breadcrumbs for when I have to cross the great forest of the night." --Manuel Rivas, El País
Author Biography
Héctor Abad Faciolince. Nació en Medellín (Colombia), en 1958. Estudió Lenguas y Literaturas Modernas en la Universidad de Turín (Italia). Además de ensayos, traducciones y críticas literarias, ha publicado, entre otros, los siguientes libros: Asuntos de un hidalgo disoluto, Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes, Fragmentos de amor furtivo, Angosta, El olvido que seremos, La Oculta, Lo que fue presente y Salvo mi corazón, todo está bien. Con su tercera novela, Basura, obtuvo en España el I Premio Casa de América de Narrativa Innovadora. Ha publicado también un libro de poemas, Testamento involuntario; uno de ensayos, Las formas de la pereza, y otro de narrativa, Traiciones de la memoria. De sus libros hay traducciones a más de quince idiomas.
