Blitz

From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman.

Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning competition. In an instant, a text message Beto wasn't meant to receive shatters him, leaving him bewildered and heading nowhere. But unintentionally he falls into the arms of Helga, an older woman, in a cross-generational encounter that is the heart of the tale.
With sensitivity and biting wit, Trueba crafts a story of errant souls and lost loves, humorously critiquing male narcissism, all the while showing us that in this modern age it is more important than ever to appreciate every moment and embrace intimacy when luck allows it, no matter from where.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 08/30/2016
ISBN: 9781590517840
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/16/2016
Library Journal 10/01/2016 pg. 76