En una idílica isla caribeña, en una mansión de ensueño, la vida discurre plácidamente para una pareja de millonarios y sus sirvientes. Sin embargo, pronto irrumpirá el germen de la pasión, ese yo secreto que solemos vestir con las mejores mentiras, y lo trastocara todo...
Morrisonen literatur lanetan, arraza-, sexu- eta klase-arteko gatazkaren deskripzio errealistaz gain, fantasia eta elementu mitikoak ageri dira, oso errotuak beltzen folklorean. Maitea honetan ere, adibidez, protagonistak haur hil baten mendean daude, eta hark bultzatuta doaz ihesi bi anaia etxetik, ama eta arreba etxean bakar-bakarrik utzita. Prosa gogor eta lirikoa du. Blues, jazz edo kantu espiritualen tradizioari jarraituz, elkarri eskua emanda doaz zoriona eta tristura, algara eta malkoak, maitasuna eta heriotza. Estiloa ere berezia du: zatika dago idatzia. Badirudi Morrisonek ispilu bat hartu, lurrera botata hautsi, eta printza horietan islatutako irudiak ematen dizkigula eskura, geuk osatu eta ondorioak atera ditzagun. Esandako guztiaren harian, hainbat irakurketa izan ditzake liburu honek: mamuen istorioa, kontakizun errealista, maitasun-istorioa, eleberri politikoa, feminista… Baina guztien gainetik, agian, irakurleari galdera bat txertatzen dio buruan: zer ote den benetako maitasuna eta zein diren gizatasunaren mugak.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet Cosey himself is at the mercy of a troubled past and a spellbinding woman, 'a sporting woman', named Celestial. This audacious vision from a master storyteller of the nature of love - its appetite, its sublime possession, and its dread - is rich in characters and dramatic events, and in its profound understanding of how alive the past can be. Sensual, elegiac and unforgettable, Love reflects the different facets of love, shifting from desire and lust and ultimately comes full circle to that indelible, overwhelming first love that marks us forever.
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Many women are obsessed by Bill Cosey, owner of the Cosey Hotel and resort. More than just the owner, he shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian and friend. Even after his death he dominates their lives. Yet he was driven by secret forces. Forty years on, the hotel is boarded up and the resort half under water, but Christine and Heed, old women now, bound together by a lifetime of jealousy and pain, are still the Cosey girls, 'as different as honey and soot', when Junior comes walking down the street and into their lives, in her short skirts and high boots and with a look in her eye- This audacious vision from a master storyteller of the nature of love - its appetite, its sublime possession, its dread - is shocking and moving in its profound understanding of love's ambivalence, and of how alive the past can be. It peels back the layers to reflect the different facets of love, shifting from desire through sex, lust, obsession, yearning, and ultimately full circle to the power of a girl's first love that marks her forever. And the only one who sees the whole picture is L (whose full name is revealed only near the end - a word mentioned only once in the whole of this novel), who has more to do with the outcome than anyone knows.
