Stranded

by Ester Tusquets, Esther Tusquets, Susan E Clark (Translator)

Overview

Stranded is a novel about love and betrayal among friends and lovers, husbands and wives. For years, Elia and her husband Jorge have spent their summers with their friends Eva and Pablo at a resort town on the Costa Brava. This summer, Elia arrives alone—silent, desolate, and wishing to become as inert as a stone. Jorge has left her and her world has collapsed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780916583910
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/1992
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.48(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Barcelona in 1936, Esther Tusquets directed the Barcelona publishing house Editorial Lumen from the 1960s to 2000. In the late 1970s Ms. Tusquets published a highly acclaimed narrative cycle which caused a sensation arriving on the scene just after the end of the repressive Franco regime. She has published novels, short story collections, autobiographical works and children's books, all to critical acclaim for their innovative style and feminine consciousness.

Susan E. Clark is the translator of Esther Tusquets s "Stranded". She lives in New Mexico, where she resides with her Costa Rican husband and six dogs and cats.

Editorial Reviews

Tusquets, a well-known Spanish feminist writer, has an elegant style, but this third novel of a trilogy (Love Is a Solitary Game; The Same Sea as Ev ery Summer) lacks cohesiveness. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

First published in Spanish in 1980 under the title Beached After the Last Ship wreck , this novel joins two previous works in translation by the Spanish feminist author. In this work, she delves into the theme of midlife dissatisfaction and its devastating impact upon women. The two protagonists--Eva, an assertive feminist lawyer, and Elia, an ethereal writer--are the losers in a tale of conjugal betrayal. Depressed by her husband's desertion, Elia arrives at the summer home of Eva and Pablo to begin her struggle to regain self-esteem. As the summer progresses, Eva and Pablo's marriage also founders. Using a stream-of-consciousness technique, the author probes the depths of these relationships, which are further complicated by the presence of Clara, a disturbed teenager. Ultimately, she discards the Cinderella myth in favor of self-reliance, stripping away the artifice underlying the passionate imagery to reveal the characters' true expectations. Recommended for large fiction collections.-- Mary Ellen Beck, Troy P.L., N.Y.

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