by Dan Rhodes · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420465302
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«Timoleon Vieta vuelve a casa» is the novel by Dan Rhodes, published by Alfaguara in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
A retired composer lives in solitude in Tuscany with Timoleon, a mongrel dog with an unforgettable gaze. His routine, full of fantasies about love and suicide, is disrupted by the arrival of a young man whose unsettling personality endangers the bond between the animal and his master. A bittersweet novel about fidelity and solitude.
Originally published in English as Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey. It won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award in 2003.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and stories about dogs; its bittersweet tone and twists make it suitable for book clubs.
Dan Rhodes is an English writer known for the novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home (2003), a subversion of the popular Lassie Come Home movie. He is also the author of Anthropology (2000), a collection of 101 stories, each consisting of exactly 101 words. In 2010 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award.
