Ordesa is a literary fiction book by author Manuel Vilas.
Ordesa is a meditation on loss and a powerful discovery of an extraordinary and completely ordinary person – singular and representative of all of us – who transformed a time of crisis. into something beautiful and redeeming.

A poignant and compelling story about love, loss and memory.

A man at a crossroads in life considers his hometown and the place where his parents have just passed away. In the face of great personal turmoil, he sat down to write. What follows is a bold chronicle of his childhood and an uncompromising account of his life’s trials, setbacks, and triumphs becomes a moving look at what was family give and take.

With the intimacy of a brewer, he thinks about the ghosts of his parents and the present ghosts of his divorce, children, career, and addictions. In unshakably honest prose, Vilas discovers his identity after a great loss – what is a person without marriage or without parents? What is a person in the face of memories alone? Already a famous poet and novelist in Spain, Vilas has taken his work to the next level with this autobiographical novel; Critics have called it a work of art that can burn pain.

• Ordesa

• A Novel
• By: Manuel Vilas, Andrea Rosenberg – translator

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