Severina

Rey Rosa, Rodrigo 1958- (author.). Andrews, Chris, 1962- (translator.).

Summary: "Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything. ... I knew she'd be back," the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller secretly tracking the volumes she steals, hoping for insight into her character, her motives, her love life. In Rodrigo Rey Rosa's hands, this tale of obsessive love is told with almost breathless precision and economy. The bookstore owner is soon entangled in Severina's mystery: seductive and peripatetic, of uncertain nationality, she steals books to actually read them and to share with her purported grandfather, Señor Blanco. In this unsettling exploration of the alienating and simultaneously liberating power of love, the bookseller's monotonous existence is rocked by the enigmatic Severina. As in a dream, the disoriented man finds that the thin border between rational and irrational is no longer reliable. Severina confirms Rey Rosa's privileged place in contemporary world literature.

Record details

ISBN: 9781306407724
ISBN: 1306407729
ISBN: 0300196091
ISBN: 9780300196092
ISBN: 0300208499
ISBN: 9780300208498
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 86 pages .)
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Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published in Spanish as Severina, copyright © 2011, Rodrigo Rey Rosa."
Formatted Contents Note:	Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction / Andrews, Chris -- Severina -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Language Note:	In English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.