El ano de los mil cafes (Spanish Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Delighted to find this book in Spanish, and to receive it so quickly. I read it over a quiet weekend and it was the perfect companion for a cold weekend at home-- meanwhile in Barcelona, Laura and her friends, Dolors and Montse (short for Montserrat, and btw, I adore Caballé!) fought the Catalunyan cold with hot chocolate, hot café in proper demi-tasses with two drops of milk, mojitos served up by a Chilean restaurateur, drank cavas and good wines, ate well, and never gained any weight! The plot is not Aristotelian, but that is not where the pleasure of reading it comes in-- it's in the reading itself. Laura's husband has an affair and his sin feels like an insult to urbane womankind, for Laura, on the verge of 50, is smart, generous, a talented designer, attractive, and equipped with a healthy sense of the ironic and postmodern. Juán, the appropriately named spouse, comes off as a bourgeois lout, while Andrés, the object of Laura's rebound romantic hopes turns out to be not good enough for her-- he reminds one of the soap opera "galán" of Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Mireia Arrate's Castillian prose is impeccable, from exposition to dialog; the pacing is well-timed so you can enjoy an espresso of your own and keep reading a book that captures a moment in time of a particular section of society in such a timeless city as Barcelona.

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A raiz del descubrimiento de la infidelidad de su marido con la mujer de uno de sus mejores amigos, Laura decide romper con la vida de esposa perfecta y de mama (aunque los hijos a los que cuida ni tan solo son suyos) para hacer su propia vida en solitario y dedicar mas tiempo a su profesion. Las reflexiones de Laura sobre la vida en pareja, las renuncias a lo personal, la maternidad, las relaciones con los hombres son las que muchas mujeres de hoy en dia se hacen y en las conversaciones con sus amigos y las situaciones en la que se envuelve descubriremos a un personaje que se nos hace muy cercano. El ano de los mil cafes es una novela actual, urbana, que retrata a un grupo de parejas estables de clase acomodada, que aunque aparentemente son perfectos tambien cometen errores porque todos somos humanos; esa estabilidad inicial se derrumbara como una castillo de arena para que todos empiecen de nuevo y se planteen sus vidas quizas algo descuidadas por la inercia del dia a dia.

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