β Scribed by David Trueba; Mara Faye Lethem
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Trueba scores with his story about the need people have to connect to others, whether through sports, love or money._Cleveland Plain Dealer_
One part Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, one part Paul Haggis' Crash, the rest is all David Trueba,modern day Madrid, and a narrative that pulsates with longing, lust and simmering rage. Don't dare pick it up if you have plans for the weekend, or for the rest of the day for that matter. It's that good. I was casting the adaptation in my mind as I tore through it. Vivid, real and raw, the novel is at once unsparing and entirely humane. Simply masterful.Joe McGinniss, Jr., author of The Delivery Man
_Learning to Lose_ is complex, powerful, surprising and most of all smart.David Trueba is the real thing.I had a lot of work on my desk and it is still on my desk.I have however read Mr. Trueba's novel.Enough said.Percival Everett, author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier
It is Sylvias sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to beginnot with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylvias father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair with a prostitute.
Set against the maze of Madrids congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows these four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, redemption, and, above all, a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together.
From one of Spains most celebrated contemporary writers, Learning to Lose is a lucid and gripping view into the complexities of lives overturned and into the capriciousness of modern life, with its intoxicating highs and devastating lows.
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