{"title":"David Trueba","description":"David Trueba was born in Madrid in 1969 and has been successful both as a novelist and as a screenwriter. La buena vida was his widely acclaimed debut as a film director and was followed by Obra maestra, Soldados de Salamina, Bienvenido a casa, and La silla de Fernando. He is the author of two previous novels, Cuatro amigos and Abierto toda la noche. Learning to Lose won the Critics Award in 2009 and marks Trueba's English-language debut. Mara Faye Lethem is the translator of Spanish and Catalan authors such as Albert Sánchez Piñol, Juan Marsé, Javier Calvo, Jorge Semprún, and Pablo DeSantis. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she has lived in Barcelona since 2003.","products":[{"product_id":"learning-to-lose-paperback","title":"Learning to Lose - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is Sylvia's sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin--not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylvia's father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair with a prostitute. \u003cbr\u003eSet against the maze of Madrid's congested and contested streets, \u003ci\u003eLearning to Lose \u003c\/i\u003efollows these four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, redemption, and, above all, a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together. \u003cbr\u003eFrom one of Spain's most celebrated contemporary writers, \u003ci\u003eLearning to Lose \u003c\/i\u003eis a lucid and gripping view into the complexities of lives overturned and into the capriciousness of modern life, with its intoxicating highs and devastating lows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67642367049951,"sku":"9781590513224","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/969bJO4Stz9781590513224.webp?v=1790517075"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-trueba.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}