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José Carlos Llop

    José Carlos Llop's extensive work spans a diverse range of literary genres, from short stories to novels and poetry. His writing is characterized by a deep engagement with the human psyche and the complexities of relationships. Llop explores themes of identity, memory, and the search for meaning in the contemporary world. His style is often described as incisive and evocative, capable of capturing the subtle nuances of the human experience.

    Guillermo Stein
    The Pursuit of Love. Englische Liebschaften, englische Ausgabe
    • Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'Obsessed with sex ' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got more information out of a book called Ducks and Duck Breeding. 'Ducks can only copulate, ' said Linda, after studying this for a while, 'in running water. Good luck to them.' Oh, the tedium of waiting to grow up Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in war-torn Paris. . . 'Utter, utter bliss' Daily Mail

      The Pursuit of Love. Englische Liebschaften, englische Ausgabe
      4.0
    • Guillermo Stein

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      »Meine Großmutter las mir die Postkarten vor und wenn sie fertig war, verfinsterte sich ihr Blick und ihre Augen wechselten die Farbe, genauso wie das Wasser eines Teichs die Farbe wechselt, wenn eine Wolke die Sonne verdeckt.« José Carlos Llop entwirft mit diesem Kurzroman ein diffuses Bild von Mallorca inmitten der franquistischen Diktatur. Die Ereignisse, die das Leben der jungen Protagonisten – Schüler eines Jesuitenkollegs – bestimmen, reichen bis in die Geschichte des Spanischen Bürgerkriegs zurück, als die Baleareninsel zum Stützpunkt des faschistischen Italiens wurde.

      Guillermo Stein