by Aimee Bender · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426418913
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«La insólita amargura del pastel de limón» is the contemporary fiction novel by Aimee Bender, published by Lumen in hardback (320 pages, in Spanish).
When she tastes the cake her mother has made for her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein discovers she can perceive the emotions of the cook. This gift brings her closer to the secrets of her family, marked by her mother's anxiety, her father's indolence and her brother's oddities, as she grows up and learns to live with that sensitivity.
Published in October 2011 in Lumen's Narrativa collection; hardback edition with dust jacket.
Readers of contemporary fiction and fiction about family life will find in this novel a story with an unusual starting point.
Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards.
