
Beautiful
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This magical tale of love and rivalry between two brothers in Mexico is an "intense, engaging, psychologically deep [novel that] lives up to its title" ( Ex Libris). Miguel is beautiful. His beauty is so rare and miraculous that it has made him the object of cult-like devotion in the city. With a mix of admiration and disquiet, his older brother Santiago observes the prodigious effect that Miguel's looks have on his mother and father, neighbors, passersby, and the droves of female suitors who follow him everywhere. With Miguel constantly under the spotlight, Santiago is left to inhabit darker, hidden places, from where he will finally learn that life is not easy for anyone, even his prodigiously handsome brother. Set in Mexico, this story is narrated with deep psychological insight yet shines with the mythical light of magical realism. Disappointments, flights, regrets, reunions, goodbyes, epiphanies make up this story, as we follow the two brothers, their family, the women they love, and the people around them-all forever marked, each in their own way, by their extraordinary encounter with Beauty. "Massimo Cuomo's writing, not the protagonist's beauty, is what's truly wonderful about this book." - Coooperazione
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Massimo Cuomo was born in Venice in 1974 and lives in Portogruaro, in a house that is closer to the countryside than to the city. He is the author of three novels and teaches creative writing to inmates of the Rieti prison in Italy. Beautiful is his first book to appear in English.
Content
- Intro
- BEAUTIFUL
- THE DIVINE CHILD
- El nacimiento. BIRTH
- Guayaberas y palabras en el viento. GUAYABERAS AND WORDS IN THE WIND
- Mar de brazos. Río de lágrimas. SEA OF ARMS, RIVER OF TEARS
- Medicamentos milagros. MIRACLE DRUGS
- Corriendo desesperadamente. A MAD DASH
- La fiesta de cumpleaños. THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
- El nino diviño. THE DIVINE CHILD
- THE TIME FOR KISSING
- Juntos. SIDE BY SIDE
- Los días del perro. DOG DAYS
- El aire en el patio. THE BREEZE IN THE COURTYARD
- Para un pedazo de carne. FOR A PIECE OF MEAT
- El tiempo de los besos. THE TIME FOR KISSING
- El tiempo de las bofetadas. THE TIME FOR TUSSLING
- LOST THINGS
- Hamacas. HAMMOCKS
- Los hilos rotos. CUT STRINGS
- Cosas perdidas. LOST THINGS
- La belleza del amor. THE BEAUTY OF LOVE
- Llegar a ser grandes. GROWING UP
- Libertad. FREEDOM
- Viajes de papel. TRAVELS ON PAPER
- Almas robadas. STOLEN SOULS
- La mitad. El doble. HALF, DOUBLE
- TAKE ALL
- Victorias y derrotas. WINS AND LOSSES
- Tomarselo Todo. TAKE ALL
- Ir. Volver GOING, COMING BACK
- La Música en la Sangre. MUSIC IN THE BLOOD
- Día de los muertos. DAY OF THE DEAD
- El diablo y la cucaracha. THE DEVIL AND THE SCARAB
- TOO MUCH BEAUTY
- Sueño. SLEEP
- Demasiada belleza. TOO MUCH BEAUTY
- A SENTIMENTAL MAP
- Mapa de un sentimento. A SENTIMENTAL MAP
- Clavos en la pared. NAILS IN THE WALL
- Persiguiendo un presentimiento. FOLLOWING A HUNCH
- Hermoso. BEAUTIFUL
- Ser hermanos. BEING BROTHERS
- El tiempo que queda. THE TIME REMAINING
- A DESTINATION
- Un destino. A DESTINATION
- GLOSSARY
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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