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En soledad (Aisara, May 2010)
A man thinks he recognises a prostitute he frequented years ago. He takes her home and offers her a full-time job working exclusively for him. The terms are that she lives with him and has a relationship where love is not involved, where there is no room for compromise or complicity, a relationship that goes no deeper than sex.
And so begins a journey to the innermost being of both characters, a journey towards solitude and hope, towards salvation, guilt and memory, towards missed opportunities and mistakes.
Living in a magnificent villa in the Sierra, surrounded by all the home comforts, there is only one place that is out of bounds to her, and that place houses secrets and surprises, the reasons for their relationship and for many others, and where she too finds the reason for her own life.
En soledad raises several questions: whether love is possible, whether hope is possible, whether couplehood is possible.
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¡Mi
mujer está embarazada! (Grand Guignol Ediciones,
2006)
Countless
books have been written for mothers-to-be, but here at last is a
long overdue book about parenthood, written by a man for fathers-to-be.
Women find an answer to absolutely everything, or almost everything,
in such books. Men, on the other hand, have to survive in lonely,
uncharted waters from the time they hear they are to be a father.
It is a world full of surprises (good and bad), doubts (which they
are sometimes hesitant about airing), changes (family, social, sexual
and financial) and fears (will they get to the hospital on time,
or will the baby be born in the car?).
From the time the future father hears the happy tidings until the
baby is actually born, Antonio Martínez Asensio relates the
myriad feelings of men during the nine-month wait, looking at their
relationship with their partner, their parents and in-laws, their
friends, the gynaecologist, midwife and nurses, and, of course,
the child they’re not carrying.
Funny
and tender, this book will make you laugh, it will give you food
for thought and it will help you to understand many things. It will
also teach you some tricks to stop playing a secondary role in an
adventure where, till now, women have reigned supreme.
Foreign Rights sold :
- Aisara, Italy, (published in April 2009)
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