Author: Abad Faciolince, Hector.
Publisher: Debolsillo
Pages:208
“One of Latin America’s most revered and successful authors.” —The Guardian The Dawn of a Husband, an intimate and candid reflection on the decline of love, brings together sixteen stories that address fundamental themes in Abad Faciolince’s narrative: desire and its loss, misunderstandings, and the sharp pain of heartbreak. His characters are consumed by longing, boredom caused by marital routine, jealousy, and infidelity. Among other figures, we encounter a husband who wakes up every day next to his wife, only to realize that he no longer desires her as he once did; a man who jealously watches his wife from a distance as she spends time with strangers who seem to seduce her, and a woman who writes a list of grievances in which she reproaches her husband for having stopped loving her. Melancholy and awareness of the passage of time are the driving forces behind this literary universe, created with painful lucidity by its author, in which drug trafficking and violence burst in as constant reminders of our turbulent reality. “What I read by Héctor Abad Faciolince, I keep like very spherical, polished, luminous breadcrumbs for when I have to cross the great forest of the night.” —Manuel Rivas, El País