by Anne Tyler · RBA La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478712540
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«Un matrimoni amateur» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by RBA La Magrana in hardcover (320 pages, in Catalan).
Michael and Pauline meet in the grocery store run by Pauline's mother and, at the very start of the Second World War, they marry hastily. The novel spans thirty years of marriage in which both wonder if they made the right choice, while showing the daily routines and social changes that wear down or sustain the relationship.
Original title: «The Amateur Marriage». Translation by Ernest Riera Arbussa. Number 176 in the Otros La Magrana collection. Published in 2004.
It is aimed at readers of contemporary and literary fiction who are looking for novels about marriage, family life and the passage of time.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
