Your Name Written on Water
by Irene Gonzalez Frei
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YOUR NAME WRITTEN ON WATER, winner of an international contest for erotic literature in Spanish and a bestseller in Spain, is a startling and charged exploration of desire and narcissism that reads like Carole Maso's AUREOLE with a twist of THE STORY OF O. Sofía works in a gallery in Madrid, the young wife of an architect whose love for her has hardened into a passionate and destructive resentment. Her life is transformed when one afternoon, by chance, she spends her lunch hour at a public show more pool outside the city. There she meets Marina, a woman who is her doppelgänger. They are immediately drawn together - so powerfully that Sofía feels it all may be a trick of her fevered mind - and together they forge a love that is tender as well as passionate, with an intimacy that is almost eerie. When Sofía learns that Marina is leaving for a job in Rome, she sees the perfect exit from a marriage that has become tyranny. And so they go, twin fugitives after desire - but pursued as well by the spectre of danger. YOUR NAME WRITTEN ON WATER is a stunningly accomplished and deeply psychological novel with the charge of an erotic thriller. show lessTags
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The English translation of "Your Name Written on Water" is a feast of well-chosen words and phrases. The bulk of the novel is a ribald and romantic accounting of love and lust from a woman to her lost lover, remembering all their poignant moments together. With many surprises to be found in the narrative (some dark, some brilliant, some visceral), it's an absolute joy therein to find four-letter words used sparingly, yet when used, are absolutely appropriate and meaningful.
Highly recommended with a strong warning to bear in mind, this is a contemporary erotic novel that sits very well on the shelf joining the works of the Marquis de Sade and Nicola Griffith's Slow River."
Highly recommended with a strong warning to bear in mind, this is a contemporary erotic novel that sits very well on the shelf joining the works of the Marquis de Sade and Nicola Griffith's Slow River."
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La sonrisa vertical (91)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Your Name Written on Water
- Original publication date
- 1995
- Important places
- Madrid, Spain; Rome, Italy
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, LGBTQ+
- DDC/MDS
- 863.64 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000
- LCC
- PQ6657 .O537 .T8213 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Individual authors, 1961-2000
- BISAC
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- Members
- 75
- Popularity
- 419,425
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (2.86)
- Languages
- Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 8
