Divorce Is in the Air

✍ Scribed by Torne, Gonzalo

• Book ID: 109308757
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 393 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385354028

✦ Synopsis

The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love --and the end of love--and how hard it can be to let go.
There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know--but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate romance. The recollection of this ill-fated trip triggers in him a series of flashbacks through which he narrates his life story, hopscotching between Barcelona and Madrid. Starting from pivotal moments in his childhood--his earliest sexual encounters, his father's suicide, his mother's emotional decline--he moves through the years to the origin of his relationship with Helen and the circumstances surrounding its deterioration. The result is a provocative exploration of memory, nostalgia, romance, the ways...