by Susan Elderkin · Emecé Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496580008
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Atardecer en las montañas de chocolate» is the fiction novel by Susan Elderkin, published by Emecé Editores in paperback (350 pages, in Spanish).
After losing his mother, Theo, a 34-year-old Londoner, settles in a caravan in the Arizona desert. Between yoga, New Age philosophy and a cactus garden, he lives with Jossie, who goes from girl to rebellious teenager determined to unravel her past. The novel mixes the grotesque and the tender in a story of grief and reinvention.
The work was originally published in 2000 as Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains, was translated into Spanish by Carlos Gardini and won the Betty Trask Award.
A novel for readers of contemporary fiction seeking stories of grief, personal reinvention and eccentric characters.
Susan Elderkin is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, The Voices was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was one of Granta Magazine's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the 2007 Society of Authors Travel Award. She is the author, with Ella Berthoud, of The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies and The Story Cure: Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise.
