This Human Season
- 384 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
In the weeks before Christmas a mother will lose a son, and a father will gain one. Both will have to find a way to survive when everything they love is in danger of being destroyed.
Louise Dean es aclamada por sus novelas audaces, francas y cómicamente oscuras que aportan un nuevo color y carácter a la ficción inglesa. Su escritura se caracteriza por un estilo lúcido y aparentemente sin esfuerzo, explorando magistralmente los lazos familiares, la clase social, la brecha generacional y la Inglaterra desaparecida del pasado. Sus obras son humanas, conmovedoras y excepcionalmente divertidas, lo que la establece como una voz distintiva en la literatura contemporánea.


In the weeks before Christmas a mother will lose a son, and a father will gain one. Both will have to find a way to survive when everything they love is in danger of being destroyed.
Jan and Annemieke are going on their last holiday together, their love dissolving in middle age. Thirty years their senior, Dorothy and George are on one of their first. When these four people meet on an island in the Caribbean, they find more than an escape from their daily existence. They discover that it's not too late to save the rest of their lives.