Learning to talk to plants / Marta Orriols ; translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orriols, Marta, author.

Contributor:

Lethem, Mara Faye, translator.

Standardized Title:

Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes. English

Language:

Catalan

English

Subjects (All):

Women pediatricians--Fiction.

Women pediatricians.

Neonatology--Fiction.

Neonatology.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Adultery--Fiction.

Adultery.

Middle-aged women--Fiction.

Middle-aged women.

Mistresses--Fiction.

Mistresses.

Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology).

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

251 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2020.

Summary:

An immersive moving novel about complex grief: a woman attempts to rebuild her life after her boyfriend leaves her for another women then dies hours later. In the months after the death of her long-term boyfriend Mauro, Paula Cid - a neonatalist working in a Barcelona hospital - has become caught in a strange limbo of mourning. Only her closest friends know that hours before he was killed in a car accident Mauro had told her that he was leaving her for another woman. Navigating the unsettled nature of her grief, obsessing over Mauro's infidelity and pursuing fraught affairs with a new colleague and a charismatic stranger, she struggles to make sense of her world anew. Told in immersive, lucid prose, Learning to Talk to Plants is a moving and tender exploration of the emotional kaleidoscope of grief, and of the awkward, unpredictable process of rebuilding a shattered life.

Notes:

Translated from Catalan.

"First published as Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes in Barcelona, 2018"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781782275770

1782275770

OCLC:

1143459006