by Anne Tyler · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426421333
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«El hombre que dijo adiós» is the novel by Anne Tyler, published by Lumen in hardback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Aaron, a middle-aged widower who works as an editor, keeps seeing his wife Dorothy months after her death, with a naturalness that surprises even him. Between the routine of the neighbourhood and the attempt to rebuild his house, Aaron learns to live with grief and to find a way to say goodbye.
Translation by Ana Mata Buil of the English original «The Beginner's Goodbye». The edition belongs to the Narrativa collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate psychological novels focused on everyday life and grief.
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.
