The distance that separates us
by Maggie O’Farrell
Synopsis:
On a London bridge, Stella runs into a man she hasn’t seen for years, but whom she immediately recognizes. This vision of her disturbs her so much that she leaves her job and, without telling anyone, she settles in a remote place in Scotland; Only her unpredictable and crazy sister Nina, to whom she is very close since she suffered a serious illness as a child, knows where to find her. On the other side of the world, in Hong Kong, Jake and his girlfriend Mel are in the middle of a crowd celebrating Chinese New Year when misfortune occurs. Neither Stella nor Jake know anything about each other’s existence, but both are fleeing their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote that it doesn’t appear on any map, and Stella in search of something whose meaning only her sister Nina can understand. Unpublished in Spanish, The Distance That Separates Us is a captivating story about how family shapes our lives, and how difficult it is, no matter how hard we try, to leave our roots behind.
Author biography:
Maggie O’Farrell (1972) was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He has published the novels ‘After You’d Gone’ (2000), ‘My Lover’s Lover’ (2002), ‘The Distance That Separates Us’ (2004; Libros del Asteroid, 2024; winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), ‘The Strange disappearance of Esme Lennox’ (2007), ‘The first hand that held mine’ (2010; Libros del Asteroid, 2018; winner of the Costa novel award), ‘Instructions for a heat wave’ (2013), ‘You have to be here’ (2016; Libros del Asteroid, 2017), the international bestsellers ‘Hamnet’ (2020, Libros del Asteroid, 2021; awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award) and ‘The Married Portrait’ (2022; Libros del Asteroid, 2023), as well as a memoir, ‘I’m still here’ (2017; Libros del Asteroid, 2019).
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