Adiós, pequeño (Goodbye, little one)
by Máximo Huerta
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FERNANDO LARA PRIZE 2022
My mother would have been happier if I had never been born. That’s the simple truth about my life. The plot and the ending of this novel don’t really matter. Accepting the circumstances of the story is the only sedative that allows me to write. The only thing I’m afraid of is the end. The only purpose of this sermon of mine, of all these words, of the constant pain and the feigned happiness, is to delay my inexorable arrival at that point, like watching a train make its way down the mountain, disappearing into tunnels that were dug a century ago.
“Should I write?” I ask myself. “Write and, once you’ve finished, don’t go back. Say goodbye.”
With this brave, intimate account, the author reconstructs a childhood in which everyone – grandparents, parents and children – has been silent for too long. Adiós, pequeño is the story of a family trying to be happy despite everything.
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Author Biography
Máximo Huerta (Utiel, 1971) is a writer and journalist. He has published the novels Con el Amor bastaba (Love was Enough), Que sea la última vez…, (Let it be the Last Time…), El susurro de la caracola (The Whisper of the Snail), Una tienda en París (A Shop in Paris), La noche soñada (The Perfect Night), which won the Primavera Prize for Fiction 2014, No me dejes/Ne me quitte pas (Don’t Leave Me), La parte escondida del iceberg (The Hidden Part of the Iceberg) and Firmamento (Firmament), many of which have been translated into several languages. He has also written short stories – El escritor (The Writer), Elsa y el mar (Elsa and the Sea) and Partir de cero (Starting from Zero); illustrated books – Mi lugar en el mundo eres tú (You are my Place in the World), Paris sera toujours Paris (Paris Will Always be Paris) and Viva la Dolce Vita (Long Live the Dolce Vita); and a collection of newspaper columns – published as Intimidad Improvisada. He has had an extensive television career and his writing has appeared in numerous print outlets.
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- Publisher Planeta
- Publication Date June 2022
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788408258568
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatHardback
- Pages384
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2022
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