Somehow it seemed to him the only thing that would really solve the problem would be to return to the sea and find the old ring with their names and the wedding date engraved inside, in 22-carat gold, and put it on again and then the world would magically return to what it had been before. Many years before.
This did not happen.
Thomas and Mary have been married for thirty years. They have two children, a dog, a house in the suburbs. But after years of drifting apart, things finally come to a head.
In this love story in reverse, Tim Parks recounts what happens when youthful devotion has long given way to dog walking, separate bed times, and tensions over who left the fridge door open.
Lurching from comedy to tragedy, via dependence, cold re-examination, tenderness and betrayal, Thomas and Mary is a fiercely intimate chronicle of a marriage capturing the offshoots of pain sent through an entire family, when the couple at its heart decide its all over.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Random House International
ISBN: 9781784702007
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 320
Tiempo de lectura:
6h 35m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 09/02/2017
Año de edición: 2017
Plaza de edición: Reino Unido
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por TIM PARKS
Tim Parks nació en Manchester en 1954. Creció en Londres y estudió en las universidades de Cambridge y Harvard. Desde 1981 vive en Italia. Es autor de diez novelas, dos libros de crónicas sobre la vida en el norte de Italia y dos colecciones de ensayos: Adultery and Other Diversions y Hell and Back. Traductor al inglés de autores como Moravia, Tabucchi, Calvino y Calasso, Tim Parks es asimismo profesor de traducción literaria en la Universidad de Milán.