Book · eight stories · Spanish edition
Manual de derrotas elegantes
Eight lessons in losing without losing yourself
Manual de derrotas elegantes brings together eight fictional stories linked by one idea: some defeats are less about losing than about discovering which part of a life was held together by pride, fear, habit, appearances or a false version of oneself.
Different characters, intimate conflicts and an ironic look at loss, guilt, identity and relationships. Eight stories with tension, twists and endings that make you reconsider what you have read. The lessons do not teach you how to win: they explore what happens when someone stops protecting the official version of their failure.
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A life without its official version.
Eight independent stories about characters who can no longer keep their excuses intact. A signed copy, straight from the author. The book is written in Spanish.
Inside the book
Eight lessons
What remains of a life when its official version falls apart.
- El arte de no ganar
- La casa que se comía los días
- El profesor que suspendió la asignatura correcta
- El precio de los nombres falsos
- El pintor que enmarcó su cobardía
- La mujer que escuchaba pulmones
- Los vivos también se despiden
- La suerte de los demás
«The silence between them was not an absence. It had a memory. It knew which words they had used in their arguments, who had apologised without meaning it and who had been the first to close each door.»
An excerpt from «El arte de no ganar», translated for this page.