"A meditation on yearning\, solitude\, and self\; a soul storm\, a mirage of phantom figures . . . a book of deep re ckoning.&rdquo\; &mdash\; The New York Times Book Review \; The #1 in ternational bestselling phenomenon&mdash\;a profound and riveting story of love\, loss\, and memory. A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life considers the place where he&rsquo\;s from\, and where his parents have r ecently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult\, he sits down to wr ite. What follows is an audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unspar ing account of his life&rsquo\;s trials\, failures\, and triumphs that bec omes a moving look at what family gives and takes away. With the intimacy of a diarist\, he reckons with the ghosts of his parents and the current s pecters of his divorce\, his children\, his career\, and his addictions. I n unswervingly honest prose\, Vilas explores his identity after great loss &mdash\;what is a person without a marriage or without parents? What is a person when faced with memories alone? Already an acclaimed poet and novel ist in Spain\, Vilas takes his work to a whole new level with this autobio graphical novel\; critics have called it &ldquo\;a work of art able to cau terize pain.&rdquo\; Elegiac and searching\, \; \;Ordesa \;&nb sp\;is a meditation on loss and a powerful exploration of a person who is both extraordinary and utterly ordinary&mdash\;at once singular and repres enting us all&mdash\;who transforms a time of crisis into something beauti ful and redemptive."
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