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Open Heart

Elvira Lindo

Publishing date:3 march 2020

Categories:Literary Fiction, Fiction

Synopsis:

The rise and fall of a great passion, the ferocious love of two great characters who seem to be conspiring against their own serenity.

In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells the story of her parents, which is the story of an excessive love, a passionate and unstable love story forged through constant anger and reconciliation, with an entire family’s mood dependent on it.

Her father’s outsized personality, his caprices, his decisions mark the rhythms of a life characterized by drifting: after the wedding, Manuel’s job in the Dredging and Construction Company obliges him to change cities time after time, preventing him, his wife, and their children from settling down roots. Places pass by while their love disintegrates and their children grow up in a family history marked by her father’s character and the tragic illness and early death of her mother.

Highlights

Highlights Open Heart

* “An excellent novel that dissects the influence of the family circle and the persistent impress of the past.” - Jesús Ferrer, La Razón.

* “It shifts from the generational portrait of a country to the moving observations of the most intimate and at times most painful thing of all: the family.” - Ramón Rozas, Diario de Pontevedra.

* “A portentous novel.” - Juan José Millás

* “Elvira Lindo’s literary sensibility leads us to believe, despite the countless titles devoted to this subject since the dawn of time, that not everything has yet been said about love.” - Fernando Aramburu, ABC Cultural.

* “Her masterpiece… a radical immersion in the heart of a woman who has managed to free herself not only from rancor and fear, but from the prejudices imposed by her family’s patriarchal morality.” - Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, Babelia, El País.

* “It offers us priceless pages. Her best book.” - J. M. Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural.

International Editions

Serbia

Italy

USA

The Netherlands

Technical Data

Technical data	Publish date: 3 march 2020 ISBN: 978-84-322-3636-5 Pages: 384 Imprint: Seix Barral
Rights sold	Italian Rights pre-empted to Ugo Guanda, Other Press (WW English rights), Vulkan (Serbia), Signatuur (The Netherlands).
Reviews	I’ve been preparing myself to write this book my entire life. This is the story of my parents, half-remembered, half-invented. The narration of the rise and fall of a great passion, the ferocious love of two great people who seem to be conspiring against their own serenity. Elvira Lindo