by Antonio Skármeta · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788497931199
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«La velocidad del amor» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta, published by Debolsillo in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Doctor Raymond Papst leads a comfortable, monotonous existence, with tennis as his only thrill alongside his father-in-law. At fifty-two, the arrival of Sophie Mass, a fifteen-year-old tennis prodigy, shakes his world: the young woman awakens in him an overwhelming desire that dismantles his complacency.
It belongs to Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection and carries the subtitle «(Match Ball)». Antonio Skármeta was awarded Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.
For readers of contemporary fiction and erotic fiction, with the humor and narrative fluency that characterize Skármeta.
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, screenwriter, and director. His novel Ardiente paciencia was the basis for the film Il Postino. In Chile, he was popularly known for hosting a television show on literature and the arts. He served as Chile's ambassador to Germany from 2000 to 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the Chilean National Literature Prize.
