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”A meditation on yearning, solitude, and self; a soul storm, a mirage of phantom figures . . . a book of deep reckoning.” —The New York Times Book Review The #1 international bestselling phenomenon—a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory. A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life considers the place where he’s from, and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is an audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life’s trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away. With the intimacy of a diarist, he reckons with the ghosts of his parents and the current specters of his divorce, his children, his career, and his addictions. In unswervingly honest prose, Vilas explores his identity after great loss—what is a person without a marriage or without parents? What is a person when faced with memories alone? Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in Spain, Vilas takes his work to a whole new level with this autobiographical novel; critics have called it “a work of art able to cauterize pain.” Elegiac and searching, Ordesa is a meditation on loss and a powerful exploration of a person who is both extraordinary and utterly ordinary—at once singular and representing us all—who transforms a time of crisis into something beautiful and redemptive.
This field guide is illustrated with more than 275 full-colour plates. It shows 174 singular flowers that are present in Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (Spanish Pyrenees), with 128 profiles, ordered according to 8 ecosystems, each one containing a larger photograph and some smaller ones showing details of the leaves, fruits, flowers or other related species. They are complemented with enjoyable texts where the plant’s special traits, curiosities, origin of its name, uses, ecology, geographical distribution, etc., are detailed. This is the first guide to the flowers of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park published in English. CONTENTS - What this book contains - Introduction - Location map - Forests and shrubs - Forests clearings and megaphorbs - Pastures - Hay meadows - Wetlands - Rocky ground - Screes - High mountain - Bibliography - Alphabetical index of scientific and vernacular names.
‘A book of deep reckoning’ New York Times ‘Becomes a way of looking honestly at what mourning really feels like’ Guardian A man in tumult returns to Ordesa, the small mountain town where he was born, and where his parents have recently died. He sits down to write. Newly sober, his career on the wane, his relationship with his own children strained, what he produces is a dizzying chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life’s trials, failures and triumphs. He reckons with the ghosts of his parents, the pain of loss and, as the pages fill with words, he tries to piece together the bits of himself. What is a person without a family? What is a person when faced with memories alone? An autobiographical novel by a Spanish literary icon, written with the intimacy of a diary, Ordesa is a beautiful, redemptive meditation on identity, grief and the passing of time.
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Covers sights, hotels, restaurants, shopping, entertainment, and maps. Provides information that places Spain in geographical, historical and culture context.