Un futuro anterior
Mauro Libertella
FICTION | 2022 | 156 pages
One of the Best Books of 2022 according to Esquire, El País, and The Objective
They meet at a party in Buenos Aires. They're young, they go out every night, and the future is an unknown land of promises and light. However, things will get complicated very soon, because she starts dating a friend of his and they find themselves forced to have a secret relationship that reaches dramatic peaks and threatens to ruin it all.
Do they dare take one step further, to be together without hiding even if they have to reveal their betrayal? How will he be able to withstand the guilt? Could the attraction they feel transform itself into something real? These are some of the questions in this novel, which takes on a love story but also an emotional transformation. Narrated throughout the course of a decade, at the edge of the end of youth, Un futuro anterior opens a couple's black box in order to understand how they became who they are, including all their mistakes and their successes. It's also a story about the people and the things that were left behind during the journey, about what we're willing to sacrifice for the illusion of happiness.
In his new book, Mauro Libertella combines narration and essay writing with astonishing ease and walks across the abyss that separates literature from life, giving voice to a masculinity that is crossed by emotions. Written with crystalline, beautiful prose, Un futuro anterior is at once a feral investigation about one's own past, a requiem for lost friendships, and a letter thrown into the future.
RIGHTS: spanish SEXTO PISO | russian ARKADIA PUBLISHING
BY MAURO LIBERTELLA:
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