by Pedro Mairal · LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416213993
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«La uruguaya» is the novel by Pedro Mairal, published by Libros del Asteroide in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
Lucas Pereyra travels from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to collect money he cannot receive in Argentina due to exchange restrictions. Married and with a son, he is not at his best, though the company of a young friend cheers him up. In the first person, the novel addresses a couple's crisis and the gap between who one is and who one would like to be.
Number 176 in the Libros del Asteroide collection. Originally published in Argentina in 2016, it won the Premio Tigre Juan in 2017 and the Premio San Clemente in 2018.
For readers of contemporary Latin American fiction and short stories about middle age and couple relationships.
Pedro Mairal is an Argentine novelist, poet and musician. He has published more than a dozen books, among them the novel La Uruguaya which won the Tigre Juan Award in 2017. His work has been translated into French, German, Arabic, English and Dutch. In 2007, he was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America. He also is part of the Generation of 90, with other argentine writers such as Fabián Casas, Santiago Vega, Samanta Schweblin and Selva Almada.
