Asi es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traicion porque a veces traicionamos lo que mas queremos, y tambien es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos despues -los ruegos, las lagrimas, la sensacion de estar atravesado un campo de minas- para intentar recuperar lo que perdimos. Aquello que creiamos que no queriamos, que no nos importaba. Estos cuentos nos ensenan las leyes fijas del amor: que la desesperanza de los padres, la acaban sufriendo los hijos, que lo que les hacemos a nuestros ex amantes nos lo haran inevitablemente a nosotros, y que aquello de amar al projimo como a uno mismo no funciona bajo la influencia de Eros. Pero sobre todo, estos cuentos nos recuerdan que el ardor siempre triunfa sobre la experiencia, y que el amor, cuando llega de verdad, necesita mas de una vida para desvanecerse.

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Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012Finalist for the 2012 Story PrizeChosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more…

Electrifying. -The New York Times Book Review

Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize… Diaz’s prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic. -O Magazine From the award-winning author, a stunning collection that celebrates the haunting, impossible power of love. On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In a New Jersey laundry room, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness–and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, these stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that the half-life of love is forever.