by Pedro Ugarte · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447316908
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«Los cuerpos de las nadadoras» is the novel by Pedro Ugarte, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator, Jorge, observes his family, work and love life with perplexity and secret suffering. The novel is organized in frames that work as autonomous stories within a whole conceived as an enigma. The women who pass through the protagonist's life mark an intimate solitude, between irony and melancholic humor.
Published in September 2000 in the Nueva Narrativa collection by RBA. ISBN 9788447316908. Winner of the Euskadi Literature Prize 1997 and finalist for the Herralde Novel Prize 1996.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction who appreciate irony and melancholic humor.
Pedro Ugarte Tamayo is a Spanish writer and columnist. He was born in Bilbao and studied law at the Universidad de Deusto. He now teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco. He has also worked with Radio Euskadi and contributed columns to the Basque edition of El País. He has written many works of fiction, spanning novels and short stories. His debut novel Los cuerpos de las nadadoras was nominated for the Premio Herralde, while his most recent novel El país del dinero won the Premio Logroño de Novela in 2011. His work has been translated into Italian, French, German and Polish.
