Colegio Mayor / College Hall
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ISBN10: 8401022665
ISBN13: 9788401022661
Publisher: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
Published: Feb 16 2027
Pages: 272
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9788401022661
Publisher: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
Published: Feb 16 2027
Pages: 272
Language: Spanish
Un deslumbrante debut literario. LucÃa Taboada explora las trampas de la amistad, la pérdida de la inocencia y el vértigo de descubrir que hay personas que no son exactamente como imaginábamos. «Ã‰ramos estudiantes eufóricos, recién llegados a un mundo que todavÃa parecÃa dispuesto a concedernos todas las oportunidades posibles. Caminábamos por el campus con los pulmones inflados de soberanÃa y el cerebro saturado de conocimientos que confundÃamos con certezas. No tenÃamos experiencia, ni prudencia, ni mucho menos dinero, pero sà dieciocho años y, por tanto, todo el futuro era nuestro. Esa es la única edad en que esa frase no suena verdaderamente ridÃcula o arrogante. Nos enamorábamos deprisa, como si el amor se nos fuese a escurrir del cuerpo, dormÃamos poco, creÃamos que todo lo importante sucedÃa por primera vez y que, precisamente por eso, todo era irrepetible, confundÃamos la melancolÃa con una forma de prestigio y confiábamos en que la belleza acabarÃa encontrando la manera de salvarnos. Madrid, año 2004: Flora, Lois y Jordan son tres estudiantes universitarios que se conocen en el colegio mayor donde conviven y se hacen Ãntimos. Una noche Jordan sufre un episodio turbio durante una fiesta y al dÃa siguiente abandona el colegio sin dar explicación. Años después, cuando los tres son adultos, la verdad sale a la luz, y este desencadenante pondrá en un punto sin retorno a los tres amigos. En su deslumbrante debut literario, LucÃa Taboada se pregunta cómo hemos cambiado desde nuestros años universitarios, qué sueños hemos alcanzado y a cuáles nos hemos visto obligados a renunciar, y qué amigos se quedaron en el camino, y lo hace a través de una emocionante historia que habla de la amistad, la cultura machista o la fragilidad del amor en la generación millennial. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A dazzling literary debut. LucÃa Taboada explores the traps of friendship, the loss of innocence, and the dizzying realization that some people are not quite who we imagined them to be. We were euphoric students, newly arrived in a world that still seemed willing to offer us every possible opportunity. We walked across campus with our chests full of confidence and our minds crowded with knowledge we mistook for certainty. We had no experience, no prudence, and certainly no money--but we were eighteen, and so the whole future belonged to us. That is the only age when that phrase does not sound truly ridiculous or arrogant. We fell in love quickly, as if love might slip away from us; we slept little; we believed everything important was happening for the first time and therefore could never happen again; we mistook melancholy for a kind of prestige; and we trusted that beauty would eventually find a way to save us. Madrid, 2004: Flora, Lois, and Jordan are three university students who meet at the residence hall where they live and quickly become close friends. One night, Jordan experiences a troubling incident during a party, and the next day he leaves without explanation. Years later, when all three are adults, the truth comes to light--and that revelation pushes the friends past the point of no return. In her dazzling literary debut, LucÃa Taboada asks how much we have changed since our university years: which dreams we achieved, which ones we were forced to give up, and which friendships we lost along the way. She does so through a moving story about friendship, sexist culture, and the fragility of love among millennials.
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