Severina /
"Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything. ... I knew she'd be back," the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mes...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything. ... I knew she'd be back," the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller secretly tracking the volumes she steals, hoping for insight into her character, her motives, her love life. In Rodrigo Rey Rosa's hands, this tale of obsessive love is told with almost breathless precision and economy. The bookstore owner is soon entangled in Severina's mystery: seductive and peripatetic, of uncertain nationality, she steals books to actually read them and to share with her purported grandfather, Señor Blanco. In this unsettling exploration of the alienating and simultaneously liberating power of love, the bookseller's monotonous existence is rocked by the enigmatic Severina. As in a dream, the disoriented man finds that the thin border between rational and irrational is no longer reliable. Severina confirms Rey Rosa's privileged place in contemporary world literature. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Spanish as Severina, copyright © 2011, Rodrigo Rey Rosa." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 86 pages .) |
| ISBN: | 9780300208498 0300208499 |