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Pushkin Press
February 2014
On Sale: February 10, 2014
160 pages
ISBN: 0374167532
EAN: 9780374167530
Kindle: B00HXYDCE2
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Sooner or later, we all face loss. Ten-year old Lito is sure that he can change the weather, if
only he concentrates very hard. His seriously ill father Mario is anxious to create a
life-long memory for the unsuspecting Lito, and takes him on
a road-trip in a truck called Pedro. Together, they embark on a journey through strange
landscapes which blur the borders of the Spanish-speaking
world. In the meantime, Lito's mother Elena tries to find
solace in books – and undertakes a precarious adventure of
her own that will challenge her moral limits. Alternately narrated by the mother, father and son, Talking
to Ourselves is a story about how we are transformed by
loss, and how words, and sex, can serve as powerful modes of
resistance. Each of these solitary, richly textured and
strikingly unique voices forms a poignant communication –
while none of them dares to tell the others the whole truth.
A profound tribute to all those who have ever had to care
for a loved one, told with Neuman's characteristic warmth,
bittersweet humour and wide-ranging intellect.
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