SILENT NIGHT LĂUTĂREȘTE
A Novel about the Art of Survival and the Shock of Belonging
Language: English
€7.19
Synopsis
Brittany Lundgren comes from Lindstrom, Minnesota, to a city of heat, noise, and rules nobody writes down. Her new home is Curtea Lunga, a courtyard house ruled by her landlady Tanti Mita and three old women who keep watch from wooden chairs set in front of their doors. There is mamaliga and tripe soup, gossip traded like currency, a temperamental boiler, a pharmacy run on suspicion, and a gas-bottle hauler with a crooked smile. Slowly, word by borrowed word, Brittany is absorbed into the courtyard's rhythm: its church singing, its pig slaughter at Ignat, its Epiphany water, its friendships and its grudges. But letters arrive from home, a notice arrives from the real-estate agency, and the courtyard that seemed eternal turns out to be as fragile as anything else. Tender, funny, and alive with the texture of a vanished Bucharest, this is a story about what it means to be let in, and about the places that keep their hold on us long after we leave them.
About MAGÚ .
Detrás del pseudónimo de Magú se encuentra una de las plumas más potentes, crudas y viscerales de la literatura contemporánea. Con una capacidad inigualable para retratar el realismo sucio, las dinámicas de la clase obrera y la atmósfera húmeda del norte, la autora se sumerge en las venas de los conflictos sociales e íntimos para rescatar la dignidad humana de sus personajes. Este magistral estilo lírico y directo, profundamente honesto, la ha consolidado como una autora de culto imprescindible para entender la memoria de nuestra tierra.
En El pozo Fumeru, Magú construye un thriller asfixiante y descarnado sobre la Asturias de los años ochenta, combinando la crudeza del narcotráfico y la mina con una profunda ternura familiar. Fiel a su inconfundible estilo polifónico, donde los objetos cotidianos y los cantos populares actúan como hilos de la memoria, nos ofrece un homenaje inolvidable a los que bajaron, a los que no subieron y a los que se quedaron para siempre a oscuras en el camino
Product specifications
| Binding | eBook (EPUB) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | Friday, 6 November 2026 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Author | MAGÚ . |
| Category | Literature > Novels |