by Antonio Skármeta · Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481091335
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«La velocidad del amor (Match ball)» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta, published by Galaxia Gutenberg in hardback (280 pages, in Spanish).
Doctor Raymond Papst, settled into a comfortable routine, finds excitement only in the tennis matches he plays with his father-in-law. At fifty-two, he crosses paths with Sophie Mass, a fifteen-year-old emerging tennis prodigy; her overwhelming energy threatens to topple his comfortable life.
First edition published in April 1997 in the Narrativa collection of Galaxia Gutenberg.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in midlife crisis and stories that change the protagonist's life.
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.
