Vorbesteller
Neu
Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
08.12.2026
Verlag
Random House N.Y.Seitenzahl
176
Gewicht
367 g
Übersetzt von
Kit Maude
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-59376-823-2
From prize–winning author Aurora Venturini, a masterful and acerbic novel about a successful artist in her 80s returning to her hometown in Argentina after decades living and working in Europe, reckoning with old and new friends, lovers, and ideas
In a breathless, incantatory voice, Friends tells the story of Yuna Riglos, a celebrated Argentine painter nearing the end of her life. From her apartment in La Plata, Yuna writes as she paints: obsessively, associatively, driven by memory rather than chronology. Fame has not delivered peace. Instead, it has sharpened her awareness of what art cannot redeem.
At the center of the book is Antonella, a teenage girl from the slums who enters Yuna’s life as a housekeeper and becomes something far more unsettling: muse, double, survivor, and moral reckoning. As Yuna shelters Antonella from an unspeakable past of hunger, violence, and incest, the novel probes the uneasy ethics of care, authorship, and representation. What does it mean to protect another person—and what does it mean to turn their suffering into art?
Threaded through the narrative are spectral presences from Argentine and European culture—Pizarnik, Lautréamont, Dante, Goya—figures of genius and despair who haunt Yuna’s imagination as both warning and justification. Friendship, especially between women, emerges as both refuge and trap, most painfully embodied in the fate of Yuna’s fellow artist Matilde du Pin.
By turns savage, tender, comic, and horrifying, this is a novel about beauty and monstrosity, class and cruelty, the body as archive, and the terrible persistence of memory. Friends asks whether art can offer salvation—or whether it merely gives shape to what cannot be forgiven or undone.
In a breathless, incantatory voice, Friends tells the story of Yuna Riglos, a celebrated Argentine painter nearing the end of her life. From her apartment in La Plata, Yuna writes as she paints: obsessively, associatively, driven by memory rather than chronology. Fame has not delivered peace. Instead, it has sharpened her awareness of what art cannot redeem.
At the center of the book is Antonella, a teenage girl from the slums who enters Yuna’s life as a housekeeper and becomes something far more unsettling: muse, double, survivor, and moral reckoning. As Yuna shelters Antonella from an unspeakable past of hunger, violence, and incest, the novel probes the uneasy ethics of care, authorship, and representation. What does it mean to protect another person—and what does it mean to turn their suffering into art?
Threaded through the narrative are spectral presences from Argentine and European culture—Pizarnik, Lautréamont, Dante, Goya—figures of genius and despair who haunt Yuna’s imagination as both warning and justification. Friendship, especially between women, emerges as both refuge and trap, most painfully embodied in the fate of Yuna’s fellow artist Matilde du Pin.
By turns savage, tender, comic, and horrifying, this is a novel about beauty and monstrosity, class and cruelty, the body as archive, and the terrible persistence of memory. Friends asks whether art can offer salvation—or whether it merely gives shape to what cannot be forgiven or undone.
Ein neues Kapitel für Ihre Bücher
Ein neues Kapitel für Ihre Bücher
Schenken Sie Ihren alten Schätzen ein zweites Leben: Einfach Barcode scannen, Versandetikett ausdrucken, Bücher verschicken und Thalia Geschenkkarte erhalten.
Jetzt verkaufenNoch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
Verfassen Sie die erste Bewertung zu diesem Artikel
Helfen Sie anderen Kundinnen und Kunden durch Ihre Meinung.
Kurze Frage zu unserer Seite
Vielen Dank für Ihr Feedback
Wir nutzen Ihr Feedback, um unsere Produktseiten zu verbessern. Bitte haben Sie Verständnis, dass wir Ihnen keine Rückmeldung geben können. Falls Sie Kontakt mit uns aufnehmen möchten, können Sie sich aber gerne an unseren Kund*innenservice wenden.
zum Kundenservice