Book, Uruguay, A[LS]

A critical success and bestseller throughout the Spanish-speaking world, The Uruguayan is a tragicomic epic about the search for happiness. The Uruguayan presents the Argentinean Pedro Mairal, one of the most outstanding narrators of new Latin American literature. This fun and passionate novel about affections, marital crisis, self-deception and the search for happiness shows, through the sentimental adventures of a writer who has just reached the age of forty, how we must face the promises we make and don't keep and the differences between who we are and who we are. what we would really like to be. Narrated with lightness and brilliance to deal with themes such as love and guilt, responsibility and personal liberation, it establishes once and for all the talent of Pedro Mairal as one of the most prominent names (along with Patricio Pron, Mariana Enríquez, Leila Guerriero, Selva Almada and others) of a new “boom” in Latin American literature.