La Uruguaya / The Woman from Uruguay - by Pedro Mairal (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Lucas Pereyra, a writer recently in his early fourties, travels from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to collect money sent to him from abroad and that he cannot receive in his country due to exchange restrictions. Married and with a child, he is not going through his best moments, but the prospect of spending a day in another country in the company of a young friend is enough to encourage him a little. Once in Uruguay, things do not go as planned, so Lucas will have no choice but to face reality. Narrated with a brilliant first-person voice, La Uruguaya is an intense and fun novel about a marital crisis that also tells us how, at some point in our lives, we must face the promises we make and that we don't keep, the differences between what we are and what we would like to be.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Publicada con gran éxito en Argentina en 2016, <i>La uruguaya</i> ha confirmado a Mairal como uno de los más destacados narradores de la literatura argentina contemporánea.<br></b><br> Lucas Pereyra, un escritor recién entrado en la cuarentena, viaja de Buenos Aires a Montevideo para recoger un dinero que le han mandado desde el extranjero y que no puede recibir en su país debido a las restricciones cambiarias. Casado y con un hijo, no atraviesa su mejor momento, pero la perspectiva de pasar un día en otro país en compañía de una joven amiga es suficiente para animarle un poco. Una vez en Uruguay, las cosas no terminan de salir tal como las había planeado, así que a Lucas no le quedará más remedio que afrontar la realidad. <p/> Narrada con una brillante voz en primera persona, <i>La uruguaya</i> es una divertida novela sobre una crisis conyugal que nos habla también de cómo, en algún punto de nuestras vidas, debemos enfrentarnos a las promesas que nos hacemos y que no cumplimos, a las diferencias entre aquello que somos y aquello que nos gustaría ser. <p/><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION</b> <p/><b>From acclaimed Argentine author Pedro Mairal and Man Booker International-winning translator Jennifer Croft, the unforgettable story of two would-be lovers over the course of a single day.</b> <p/> Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the solution to his problems, most importantly the tension he has with his wife. While she spends her days at work and her nights out on the town-with a lover, perhaps, he doesn't know for sure-Lucas is stuck at home all day staring at the blank page, caring for his son Maiko and fantasizing about the one thing that keeps him going: the woman from Uruguay whom he met at a conference and has been longing to see ever since. <p/> But that woman, Magalí Guerra Zabala, is a free spirit with her own relationship troubles, and the day they spend together in this beautiful city on the beach winds up being nothing like Lucas predicted. The constantly surprising, moving story of this dramatically transformative day in their lives, The Woman from Uruguay is both a gripping narrative and a tender, thought-provoking exploration of the nature of relationships. An international bestseller published in fourteen countries, it is the masterpiece of one of the most original voices in Latin American literature today. <p/> "A perfect novel. A triumph from beginning to end. The novel's style, that carries the soft irony of a writer in command of his narrative voice, its extension, its verbal prowess, its impeccably paced rhythm and, of course, the theme: a marital crisis written from the perspective of an Argentine man in his mid forties who is facing an existential crisis." ―El Pais (Spain) <p/> "[Pedro Mairal] displays his full talent in a wisely structured novel, outstanding in its narrative rhythm and in the twists and turns of the plot, where humor emerges at the same time a tragedy takes shape surrounding an enigma . . . A story about love and its imponderables." ―Página 12 (Argentina) <p/> "I wasn't able to put the book down." ―María Dueñas <p/> "A perfect novel." ―Edmundo Paz Soldan <p/> "The loss and recovery of desire, the ambition of everlasting adventures, the earthquake of becoming a father, the flight forward . . . all these things occur in a single day (. . .), interwoven in the brilliant prose of Pedro Mairal, one of the best Latin American writers of our time." ―Leila Guerriero<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Pedro Mairal</b> nació en Buenos Aires en 1970. Su novela <i>Una noche con Sabrina Love</i> recibió el Premio Clarín en 1998 y fue llevada al cine. Ha publicado también las novelas <i>El año del desierto</i> (2005) y <i>Salvatierra</i>(2008), el volumen de cuentos <i>Hoy temprano</i> (2001), y los libros de poesía <i>Tigre como los pájaros</i> (1996), <i>Consumidor final</i> (2003) y la trilogía <i>Pornosonetos</i> (2003, 2005 y 2008). En 2007 fue nombrado uno de los 39 mejores jóvenes escritores latinoamericanos por el Hay Festival de Bogotá. Trabaja como guionista y escribe para distintos medios de comunicación. En 2013 publicó <i>El gran surubí</i>, una novela en sonetos, y <i>El equilibrio</i>, una recopilación de las columnas que escribió durante cinco años para el diario Perfil. En 2015 publicó en Chile <i>Maniobras de evasión</i>, un libro de crónicas. Su última novela, <i>La uruguaya</i>, ha recibido en España el Premio Tigre Juan 2017 y lo ha confirmado como uno de los más destacados autores argentinos de su generación.
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