{"title":"Books by Jaime Zulaika","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"despedidas-panorama-de-narrativas","title":"Despedidas","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarnes celebrates his eightieth birthday with a dazzling work about memory and old age, love and farewells.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulian Barnes turns eighty and celebrates it with a beautiful exploration of memory and the past, the unpredictable paths our decisions lead to, the search for happiness—at any age—and, of course, love, friendship, and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat holds more truth: our memories, our diaries, the anecdotes told a thousand times, or the image others reflect back to us? How do we compose, toward the end of our lives, a reliable account of who we are? Barnes reflects on all this against the backdrop of old age, the inevitable closeness of an end, before which we can only learn to say goodbye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut at the heart of this work there is also a story—“or a story within the story”—and its protagonists are two people Barnes promised he would never write about—let’s call them Jean and Stephen—and a Jack Russell named Jimmy. The young Barnes met Jean and Stephen when the three were studying at Oxford. He introduced them, they fell in love, separated, and each went their own way, far from each other and also from Barnes’s life, who never forgave them for breaking that friendship. Until nearly forty years later they reunited, again with his involvement, and life continued to turn with joys, betrayals, and disappointment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the life adventure of these two “new old” friends, the author delves into the mysteries and truths of life in this moving book that combines, in Barnes’s usual manner, fiction, memoir, and essay. With his characteristic mastery, he carves a text that appears playful and lighthearted but inevitably contains a profound meditation on the meaning of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editorial Anagrama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57115664777560,"sku":"LIB-DE-ED-796","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788433948915.jpg?v=1776285492"}],"url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/collections\/libros-jaime-zulaika.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}