by Manuel Rivas · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420482279
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«¿Qué me quieres, amor?» is Manuel Rivas's collection of short stories published by Alfaguara in hardcover (216 pages, in Spanish).
Sixteen stories about personal disconnection in a world saturated with information. A traveling salesman who sells lingerie waits for the return of his runaway son, a writer returns to his mother's lap thanks to the light of Vermeer's «La lechera», and a young man narrates his love story after dying in a robbery. Includes «La lengua de las mariposas», a friendship between a schoolboy and an anarchist teacher shattered by the brutality of 1936, and other tales where tenderness and humor survive pain and loneliness.
Alfaguara edition translated by Dolores Vilaveda. Winner of the Torrente Ballester Narrative Prize and the National Narrative Prize. The story «La lengua de las mariposas» was adapted for film by José Luis Cuerda.
