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The End of Love HC
by Marcus Giralt Torrente
Published by McSweeney's
168p, b&w, hardcover, 5.5"x7.75"
$22.00
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"In this quartet of mesmerizing stories, Marcos Giralt Torrente
explores the confounding, double-edged promise of love. Each finds a
man carefully churning over his past, trying to fathom how the distance
between people can become suddenly unbridgeable.
Two tourists visit a remote island off the coast of Africa and are
undone by a disconcerting encounter with another couple. A young man,
enchanted by his bohemian cousin and her husband, watches them fall
into a state of resentful dependence over the course of decades. A
chaste but all-consuming love affair between a troubled boy and a
wealthy but equally troubled girl leaves a scar that never heals. The
son of divorced parents tries in vain to reunite them before realizing
why he is wrong to do so. In The End of Love, Giralt Torrente forges
discomfiting and gripping dramas from the small but consequential
misunderstandings that shape our lives."