by Alan Pauls · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783423140171
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«Die Vergangenheit» is the novel by Alan Pauls, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (558 pages, in German).
Rímini and Sofía form a couple united since adolescence until they decide to separate. Rímini tries to recover lost time and surrender to desire, but Sofía reappears again and again to disturb his new life. What seemed like a love immune to the passage of time becomes a spiral of emotional blackmail, betrayal and obsession set in Buenos Aires in the 1980s.
The novel was originally published in Spanish as «El pasado» in 2003 and won the Herralde Novel Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Latin American literature interested in the dark side of couple relationships.
Alan Pauls is an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter.
