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Author Rey Rosa, Rodrigo, 1958- author
Uniform Title Severina. English
Title Severina / Rodrigo Rey Rosa ; translated by Chris Andrews
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Descript. 1 online resource (xvi, 86 pages .) : digital, PDF file(s)
Fiction



Series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Margellos world republic of letters book
Note "Originally published in Spanish as Severina, copyright © 2011, Rodrigo Rey Rosa."
Contents Frontmatter --CONTENTS --Introduction /Andrews, Chris --Severina --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Summary "Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything. ... I knew she'd be back," the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller secretly tracking the volumes she steals, hoping for insight into her character, her motives, her love life. In Rodrigo Rey Rosa's hands, this tale of obsessive love is told with almost breathless precision and economy. The bookstore owner is soon entangled in Severina's mystery: seductive and peripatetic, of uncertain nationality, she steals books to actually read them and to share with her purported grandfather, Señor Blanco. In this unsettling exploration of the alienating and simultaneously liberating power of love, the bookseller's monotonous existence is rocked by the enigmatic Severina. As in a dream, the disoriented man finds that the thin border between rational and irrational is no longer reliable. Severina confirms Rey Rosa's privileged place in contemporary world literature
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Local note JSTOR books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions
Subject Thieves -- Fiction
Bookstores -- Fiction
Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
Add Author Andrews, Chris, 1962- translator.
ISBN 9780300208498
0300208499
OCLC ocn869922021
Record Link http://catalogue.londonmet.ac.uk/record=b2812401~S1



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