by José Carlos Somoza · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472239685
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«Silencio de Blanca» is the erotic novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
Héctor, a solitary piano teacher, meets each week with the mysterious Blanca to create ritualized erotic ceremonies. While writing an essay on Chopin, his student Elisa becomes involved, and the psychiatrist Verónica destabilizes his world. Eroticism is presented as an art of desire and artifice.
The novel won the XVIII La Sonrisa Vertical Prize in 1996 and is number 96 in the La Sonrisa Vertical collection.
Work for adult readers interested in the erotic novel and contemporary Spanish literary fiction.
José Carlos Somoza Ortega is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.
