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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHispabooks Publishing
ISBN-10849428309X
ISBN-139788494283093
eBay Product ID (ePID)8038412930
Product Key Features
Book TitlePlimsoll Line
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year2016
GenreFiction
AuthorJuan Gracia Armendariz
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width7.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal863.7
SynopsisGabriel Ariz is an art professor relentlessly pursued by misfortune--his only daughter dies in a traffic accident, his wife decides to divorce him, and on top of it all, he is diagnosed with a severe kidney disease that will put him into unending hemodialysis sessions and force him to quit his job at the university. Solitude, illness, failure, and the will to carry on despite it all are themes central to Gabriel's account of his experience--a quest for survival and a coming to terms with oneself. Winner of the 2008 Premio Tiflos de Novela on its original publication in Spain. Juan Gracia Armend riz is a Spanish fiction writer and contributor to many Spanish newspapers., Gabriel Ariz is an art professor relentlessly pursued by misfortune--his only daughter dies in a traffic accident, his wife decides to divorce him, and on top of it all, he is diagnosed with a severe kidney disease that will put him into unending hemodialysis sessions and force him to quit his job at the university. Solitude, illness, failure, and the will to carry on despite it all are themes central to Gabriel's account of his experience--a quest for survival and a coming to terms with oneself. Winner of the 2008 Premio Tiflos de Novela on its original publication in Spain. Juan Gracia Armendáriz is a Spanish fiction writer and contributor to many Spanish newspapers., A beautiful novel on man's capacity to overcome solitude, illness and failure. A homage to resilience and love of life.