by Brian Moore · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422609223
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«La mujer del médico» is the novel by Brian Moore, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (226 pages, in Spanish).
Sheila Redden, wife of a Belfast doctor, travels to the French Riviera for a second honeymoon with her husband. In Paris she meets a young American ten years her junior and falls guiltily in love. When Sheila disappears, her brother Owen tries to reconstruct the reasons for her flight.
Original title: «The Doctor's Wife». Nominated for the Booker Prize in 1976. Translation by Aníbal Leal. This edition was published in 1977.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, with an interest in Irish literature and stories of passion and personal conflict.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
