by William Trevor · Salamandra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498383805
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«Verano y amor» is the romantic novel by William Trevor, published by Salamandra in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
In an Irish village in the 1950s, Ellie, raised in an orphanage, works on the farm of Dillahan, a widower still grieving the loss of his wife and newborn son. Her orderly, quiet life is disrupted by the arrival of Florian, a melancholy young man finalising the sale of the family home, who awakens an unexpected passion in Ellie. The intense, brief relationship affects other villagers and leads to a surprising outcome.
Originally published in 2009 under the title «Love and Summer».
Aimed at readers of romantic fiction set in the past and those seeking Irish narrative of literary quality.
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
