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Lucía Etxebarria Spain
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Lucía Etxebarria is born in 1966 and has
a daughter, a dog, three tatoos and innumerable scars of both the visible and
invisible variety. She has been awarded an honorary degree and title from the
University of Aberdeen and her work has been translated into fourteen
languages.
When Gabriel's estranged
sister Cordelia disappears on Tenerife, he takes up the search himself.
Together with Cordelia's friend and former lover Helena, Gabriel discovers that
his sister was involved with a powerful sect. The deeper he delves into her
disappearance, the more he learns about his own shady family background.
Looking not only for his sister but also for love, what will Gabriel find? El contenido del silencio ("The
Contents of Silence") is a novel about friendship and love and the
fragility of the human soul.
A mystery novel about seduction and the search for oneself.
El Mundo
One of Etxebarria’s most addictive novels.
Marie Claire Spain
In Lucía Etxebarria’s
latest bestseller Lo verdadero es un
momento de lo falso (“The True Is A Moment of The False”), Pumuky, the
charismatic singer in the up-and-coming band Sex & Love Addicts, is found
shot in the head near Madrid. Was it suicide? Murder? The media interview the
people who knew Pumuky best – revealing the wounds in the star’s soul. Mario,
the group’s mastermind, was always rather envious of Pumuky with his great
stage presence. Romano was Pumuky’s closest friend since schooldays, standing by
him after his mother died of a drug overdose. Romano’s mother Sabina became a
substitute parent, their relationship floating between worried concern and
erotic attraction. Later Pumuky made a habit of coming on to Romano’s
ex-girlfriends. One of them is Olga, a voracious vamp who leads a prestigious
event agency for rock bands and is bored in her marriage. When her affair with
Romano comes to an end, she succumbs to Pumuky’s charms. Romano seeks solace in
the arms of the beautiful Valeria. Used to men being interested in her as a
trophy but not in her intellectual prowess, Valeria cultivates her appearance
all the way to anorexia.
Through all these
individual fates, described with empathy, each opening up a new perspective of
Pumuky, Lucía Etxebarria creates a vivid picture of a society trapped between
fears and desires. With this novel, she shows once again that there is no
single truth, but only a number of perspectives.
Lo
verdadero es un momento de lo falso is both entertaining and
thought-provoking. Lucía Etxebarria takes a brave look behind the facades and
reveals the merciless face of an entertainment society in which everyone has a
function but no one has a true place. As in her previous novels, the author
subtly mirrors the world in which we live today. Where does fiction begin, and
where does it end, if the reader can admire The Sex & Love Addicts on
YouTube even after Pumuky’s death?
With her
acute style, the author blends eroticism and unexpected humour with a rare
sense of harmony.
Le Figaro
Another journey from which the reader is loath to return. Recommended.
Marie Claire
Rights sold (selection):
Novels:
Amor, curiosidad,
prozac y dudas
Barcelona: Plaza y Janés 1997; Booket 2009, 352 p.
Film directed by Miguel Santesmases, released in 2001
Brazil: Ática 1999 •
Croatia: Fidas 2001 • Czech Republic:
Garamond 2007 • France: Denoël 1999, 2003
(pb); 10/18 2000 (pb); France Loisirs 2000 (Book Club Edition) • Germany: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 1998; List
2000 (pb) • Greece: Kedros 2004 • Hungary: Európa Könyvkiadó 2004 • Israel: Am Oved 2004 •
Italy: Guanda 2001 • Latvia: Zvaigzne 2009 • Lithuania: Tyto Alba 2002 • Netherlands: Arena 2000 •
Norway: Ex Libris 1999; Damm 2000 (pb) •
Poland: Rebis 2007 • Portugal: Notícias 2000 • Romania: Pandora 2006 •
Serbia: Laguna 2005 • Slovakia: Belimex 2006 • Sweden: Wahlström & Widstrand 2004
Beatriz y los cuerpos
celestes
Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores 1997; Booket 2009, 282
p.
Premio Nadal 1998
Czech Republic: Garamond •
France: Denoël 2001; 10/18 2002 (pb) •
Germany: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 2000; Goldmann 2002 (pb) • Greece: Patakis 2000 •
Italy: Guanda 1999 • Lithuania: Tyto
Alba 2004 • Netherlands: Arena 2000,
Meulenhoff 2005 • Norway: Damm 2001 • Portugal: Notícias 1999 •
Romania: Niculescu 2005 • Sweden: Wahlström
& Widstrand 2007
Nosotras que no somos
como las demás
Barcelona: Destino 1999; Booket 2009, 395 p.
Germany: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt 2005 • Italy: Guanda 2003 • Portugal:
Notícias 2001
La Eva futura
Barcelona: Destino 2000; Barcelona:
Booket 2007, 243 p.
Italy: Guanda • Portugal: Notícias 2001
De todo lo visible
y lo invisible
Madrid: Espasa Calpe 2001; Barcelona: Booket 2004
(pb); Mexico: Espasa Calpe 2002 (Colección Áncora y Delfín), 452 p.
Premio Primavera 2001
Croatia:
Naklada Oceanmore 2003 • France: Denoël 2003;
10/18 2004 (pb) • Germany: Frankfurter
Verlagsanstalt 2003 • Italy: Guanda 2005 •
Netherlands: Arena 2002 • Portugal: Notícias
2002
Una historia de amor
como otra cualquiera
Madrid: Espasa Calpe 2003; Barcelona: Booket 2006
(pb); 272 p.
Mexico: Espasa Calpe 2003 (pb)
Croatia: Naklada Oceanmore 2005 • France: Héloïse D'Ormesson 2005; 10/18 2007 (pb) • German: Digital Publishing 2004, audiobook • Italy: Guanda 2004 •
Netherlands: Arena 2005 • Portugal: Notícias
2004
Un milagro en
equilibrio
Premio Planeta 2004
Barcelona: Planeta 2004; Booket 2006, 448 p.
Brazil: Planeta 2006 •
France: Héloïse D'Ormesson 2006; 10/18 2007 (pb); France Loisirs 2007 (Book
Club Edition) • Greece: Kedros 2006 • Israel: Am Oved 2007 •
Italy: Guanda 2006 • Netherlands: Pimento
2004 • Poland: Muza 2006 • Portugal: Dom Quixote 2006
Cosmofobia
Barcelona: Destino 2007; Booket 2008, 368 p.
France: Héloïse D'Ormesson 2007; 10/18 2008 (pb) • Italy: Guanda 2008 •
Poland: Muza 2009 • Portugal: Casa das Letras
2009
Lo que los hombres
no saben
Madrid: Martínez Roca 2008; Barcelona:
Booket 2009, 320 p
France: Héloïse D’Ormesson 2009; 10/18
2010 (pb)
Lo verdadero es un
momento de lo falso
Madrid: Suma de letras 2010, 408 p.
English sample translation
available
Croatia: Oceanmore •
France: Héloïse D'Ormesson 2010, pb 2011 • Italy:
Guanda 2011
El contenido del
silencio
Barcelona:
Planeta 2011, 424 p.
Croatia: Oceanmore •
France: Héloïse D'Ormesson • Italy: Guanda
2012
Non-fiction:
Ya no sufro por
amor
Madrid: Martínez Roca 2006; Barcelona:
Booket 2009, 342 p.
Croatia: Naklada Oceanmore • France: Héloïse D’Ormesson 2008; 10/18 2009 (pb) • Italy: Guanda 2007 •
Portugal: Casa das Letras 2006
La vida por
delante: voces desde y hacia Palestina
Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos 2005,
304 p.
For young readers:
La fantástica niña
pequeña y la cigüeña pedigüeña
Barcelona: Planeta 2007, 32 p.
Scripts:
Sobreviviré
1999, movie directed by David Menkes
and Alfonso Albacete
Winner of the 2000 Gay & Lesbian
Film Festival in Turin, Italy; presented at numerous international film
festival, among others at Berlin Film Festival, Miami Hispanic Film Festival
and Los Angeles Latino Film Festival
La mujer de mi vida
(with José Luis Acosta as co-writer)
2001, movie directed by Antonio del Real
I love you baby
2001, movie directed by David Menkes and
Alfonso Albacete
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detailed information concerning the rights sold abroad.