by Antonio Skármeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422664383
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«La velocidad del amor» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (275 pages, in Spanish).
Doctor Raymond Papst leads a comfortable and monotonous life, with tennis as his only excitement; at fifty-two he meets Sophie Mass, a fifteen-year-old girl considered a tennis prodigy. Her arrival triggers an erotic whirlwind that disrupts the doctor's self-satisfied existence.
Edition with dust jacket (21.5 x 14 cm), published in Barcelona in 1997.
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, screenwriter, and director. His novel Ardiente paciencia was the basis for the film Il Postino. In Chile, he was popularly known for hosting a television show on literature and the arts. He served as Chile's ambassador to Germany from 2000 to 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the Chilean National Literature Prize.
