El funeral de Lolita / Lolita's Funeral

Luna Miguel

El funeral de Lolita / Lolita's Funeral
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
8 November 2018
Pages
192
ISBN
9788426405326

El funeral de Lolita / Lolita’s Funeral

Luna Miguel

La esperada primera novela de Luna Miguel, quien se impone decir con rabia todo lo que no debo y ese decir rabioso es toda una contestacion al mundo contemporaneo (Tua Blesa, El Cultural de El Mundo).

No se ni siquiera si estas viva, pero tenia que decirtelo: Roberto ha fallecido esta manana en… , dice el mensaje de Rocio, una antigua companera del instituto, y el corazon de Helena da un vuelco. Igual al dia en que advirtio que se habia enamorado de su profesor de literatura. Ahora tendra que enfrentarse a su muerte y a sus recuerdos. Helena conoce la muerte (ha perdido a sus padres, en circunstancias muy distintas), pero la de Roberto agitara todos los fantasmas.

En el tanatorio la espera Rocio, a quien Helena entrego hace muchos anos su diario, pero tambien Laura, la viuda de Roberto, quien insiste en invitarla a su casa. Joven, reputada y polemica critica gastronomica, Helena analiza, recomienda y censura sabores y platos, pero no sabe que hacer con su vida. En su Alcala de Henares natal, lejos de la revista en la que trabaja y de su pareja, mientras los recuerdos la asaltan y le anudan el estomago, debera decidirlo.

Con El funeral de Lolita, Luna Miguel confirma ese gran talento para elegir las palabras que ha marcado su poesia y se revela como una magnifica narradora.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The long-awaited first novel by Luna Miguel, who ‘insists on going off about everything I shouldn’t’ and that rant is a complete reply to the contemporary world (Tua Blesa, El Cultural by El Mundo).

I don’t even know if you’re still alive, but I had to tell you: Roberto died this morning in…
says a message from Rocio, an old high school friend, and Helena’s heart skips a beat. Just like the day it warned her she had fallen in love with her Literature professor. Now she must face his death and her memories. Helena knows death (she has lost her parents, in very different circumstances), but Roberto’s awakens all her demons.

Waiting for her at the funeral home is Rocio, to whom Helena gave her diary years ago, but also Laura, Roberto’s widow, who insists on inviting her to her home. A young, renowned, and controversial food critic, Helena analyzes, recommends, and denounces flavors and dishes, but she doesn’t know what to do with her life. In her native Alcala de Henares, far from the magazine she works at and her boyfriend, while memories assault her and tie her stomach in knots, she must decide.

With Lolita’s Funeral, Luna Miguel confirms the great eloquence that has marked her poetry, and reveals herself to be a magnificent storyteller.

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