by Erik Orsenna · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483101247
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In 'Tantos años', Erik Orsenna introduces us to Gabriel, an ordinary man whose life takes a turn when he falls madly in love with Élisabeth in the Botanical Garden of Paris. Despite both being married, they begin a romance that spans thirty-five years, marked by encounters and disagreements in places as diverse as Seville and Beijing. Their love becomes a legend, defying moral conventions and discovering that time is the only truth and adventure. This novel portrays the persistence of loving sentiment in a changing world.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
