by Javier Cercas · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483102985
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«La velocidad de la luz» is the novel by Javier Cercas, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (305 pages, in Spanish).
The novel begins in 1987, when a young aspiring novelist settles at a university in the American Midwest and strikes up a friendship with Rodney Falk, a Vietnam veteran marked by his past. Years later, the narrator, now a successful writer, revisits that relationship and confronts the questions Rodney embodies: humanity's capacity for harm, the ravages of war, and the most insidious face of success. Literature appears as the only means capable of facing that reality head-on and exorcising its demons.
It belongs to Tusquets' Andanzas collection, where it occupies number 568. The work received the San Clemente Prize in 2007.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in novels about memory, war, and the weight of the past. It is a key work in Javier Cercas's narrative, recommended for those who have already read «Soldados de Salamina».
Spanish novelist and essayist, author of Soldiers of Salamis, The Anatomy of a Moment and the Terra Alta trilogy.
