by Lars Saabye Christensen · Maeva Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496748095
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«Modelo» is the contemporary fiction novel by Lars Saabye Christensen, published by Maeva Ediciones in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
The painter Peter Wihl, about to turn fifty, discovers he is going to lose his sight and accepts an illegal operation from a former colleague, an unscrupulous doctor. He regains his vision, but discovers that he has been given the eyes of a deceased girl; guilt torments him and he feels he has sold his soul to the devil.
Work originally published as Modellen; Spanish translation by Kirsti Baggethun and Asunción Lorenzo. Littera collection. Finalist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2008.
For readers of contemporary fiction with an interest in Nordic literature and reworkings of the Faust myth.
Lars Saabye Christensen is a Norwegian-Danish author.
