by Anne Tyler · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420464428
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«Cuando éramos mayores» is the contemporary novel by Anne Tyler, published by Alfaguara in paperback (362 pages, in Spanish).
Rebecca, owner of a banquet hall and seen by her family as a happy grandmother, no longer wants to be a person she doesn't recognize. Rebecca goes back to study what she gave up when she married, joins the gym, and opens herself to new hopes. A story about memory, second chances, and the courage to rebuild one's own life.
Translation by María José García Ripoll. Original title: Back When We Were Grownups; the original work was published in 2001.
For readers of contemporary fiction looking for stories about family, personal growth, and characters who reinvent themselves.
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
