Private Correspondence

Esther Tusquets was already well known in Spain as director of the Barcelona publishing house Editorial Lumen, where she stunned the reading public in the late seventies and eighties with the publication of a highly acclaimed narrative cycle (translated into English as The Same Sea as Every Summer, Love is a Solitary Game, Stranded, and Never to Return) whose daringly innovative content and prose style broke new ground for the Spanish novel and for women's writing. Now with her spellbinding memoir Private Correspondence (Correspondencia privada, 2001), the author finally sheds her masks and disguises to share with us the "true" story that underlies the entire body of her narrative work. The book consists of four imaginary letters to the most important people in her life, by now dead or dying, in which she reviews and meditates on her relationship with each and the role he or she has played in her story.