Learning to talk to plants / Marta Orriols ; translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781782275770
- ISBN: 1782275770
- Physical Description: 251 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: London : Pushkin Press, 2020.
- Copyright: ©ø020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translated from Catalan. "First published as Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes in Barcelona, 2018"--Title page verso. |
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Subject: | Women pediatricians > Fiction. Neonatology > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Adultery > Fiction. Middle-aged women > Fiction. Mistresses > Fiction. Loss (Psychology) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Fiction. |
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