| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 86 pages .) |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
The Margellos World Republic of Letters
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Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Note |
"Originally published in Spanish as Severina, copyright © 2011, Rodrigo Rey Rosa." |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction / Andrews, Chris -- Severina -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Thieves -- Fiction.
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Thieves. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Bookstores -- Fiction.
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Bookstores. |
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Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction.
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Booksellers and bookselling. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Andrews, Chris, 1962- translator.
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| Added Title |
Severina. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013040125
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rey Rosa, Rodrigo, 1958- Severina. English. Severina 9780300196092 (DLC) 2013024355 (OCoLC)852031295 |
| ISBN |
9780300208498 (electronic book) |
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0300208499 (electronic book) |
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9780300196092 |
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0300196091 |
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1306407729 |
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9781306407724 |
| Standard No. |
10.12987/9780300208498 |
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