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Blue flowers / Carola Saavedra ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
"Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives and for the first time in years, something moves him. Blue Flowers alternates between the letters detailing the dissolution of A.'s relationship, and Marcos' growing fixation with this damaged person. The letters become a kind of exorcism as both A.'s epistolary affair and Marcos' personal life reach a crisis point. Possessed by A., he is driven to discover her true identity. Blue Flowers is a dark portrait of desire, undermining accepted truths about love and sex, violence and fear, men and women." -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594631757
- ISBN: 1594631751
- Physical Description: 201 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead books, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Portuguese in 2008 by Companhia das Letras, Brazil, as "Flores azuis" |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Portuguese. |
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| Subject: | Letter writing > Fiction. Letters > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Divorced people > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Epistolary fiction. Fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Emmaus Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Emmaus Public Library | FIC SAAVEDRA, CAROLA (Text) | 36446002009986 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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