Vamos a tocar el agua
Luis Chaves
NOVEL | 2020 | 94 pages
A year in Berlin. Four seasons, plus one more. Two adults and two young girls. One eye turned back to the country that was left behind and the absences that never really exist; that other place that isn't quite located in the future but in the urgent: the youngest's kindergarten, a beer growing cold by a wintery window, the seawater where a foreign family comes to recognize one another. Such is the nature of the small, mundane dramas that the author turns into monuments of affection and stories of our time.
Luis Chaves has always been a writer of places and movement. This chronicle of Berlin, in which he shows us his mental pantry and the family oven where his sensibility and books cook together, joins his essential accounts of San José, Buenos Aires, and La Habana.
RIGHTS: spanish (argentina, chile, uruguay) SEIX BARRAL | spanish (costa rica) LOS TRES EDITORES
“Written with a surprising rhythm, with the lightness and piercing melancholy of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the author recounts his year-long stay in Berlin with an irreverent, nostalgic, and unforgettable story about that capital, but also about himself and his loved ones. ”
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Vamos a tocar el agua
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