by Erik Orsenna · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483101018
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«Dos veranos» is the novel by Erik Orsenna, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Gilles C., a translator in his fifties, settles on a small French island with his forty-seven cats to translate Ada or Ardor, by Nabokov. The island's summer visitors, led by Mrs. Saint-Exupéry, soon take an interest in his work and end up getting involved in his life.
It belongs to the Andanzas collection from Tusquets Editores and was published in June 1999.
For readers of contemporary fiction looking for a story about writers, island life, and the tension between privacy and community.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
