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Title Statement | Above the rain / Víctor del Árbol ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. |
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Author | Árbol, Víctor del |
Additional Contributors | Dillman, Lisa |
Publication | New York: Other Press,[2020]©2020 |
Extent of Item | 592 pages |
ISBN | 9781635429954 (pbk.) 1635429951 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3995866 |
General Notes | Translation of: Por encima de la lluvia. |
Summary | Miguel and Helena meet at a nursing home in Tarifa, at an age when they believe they have lived it all already. Miguel is afraid of flying. Helena is afraid of the ocean. Both have adult children and feel they are no longer needed. The dramatic suicide of one of the other residents opens their eyes. They don't want to spend their last days remembering and longing for supposedly better times. Together they decide to undertake the journey of their lives and confront the darkness in their pasts. Meanwhile, in the distant Swedish city of Malmèo, the young Yasmina, a child of Moroccan immigrants who dreams of being a singer, lives trapped between the care of her authoritarian grandfather Abdul and the contempt of her mother, who is ashamed of Yasmina because she works for a Swede with a murky reputation. And has a secret love affair with the Deputy Commissioner of the Swedish police, an older, influential man. As Yasmina is drawn deeper into Malmèo's criminal underworld and Miguel and Helena approach the end of their feverish road trip, Víctor del Árbol masterfully reconstructs the history of violence that links their seemingly disparate lives. |
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By Topic | Violence--Fiction |
Immigrants--Fiction | |
Secrecy--Fiction | |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
Parent and adult child--Fiction | |
Automobile travel--Fiction--Europe | |
Older people--Fiction | |
By Location | Malmèo (Sweden)--Fiction |
Morocco--Fiction | |
Spain--Fiction | |
By Genre | Road fiction |
Psychological fiction |