Say Her Name - Tapa dura

Winner of the Prix Femina Etranger A Best Book of the Year: "New York Times" Notable"New York" magazine"Entertainment WeeklyBoston Globe""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette""Publishers Weekly"Barnes and Noble"The Guardian""The Globe and Mail""The Daily Telegraph""The Independent""Sunday Herald""The Herald" (Glasgow)"The Daily Mail"Shelf Awareness "Quietly devastating . . . Powerful . . . As the story builds--inevitably, unbearably--toward Aura's last day, Goldman has so convincingly brought her to life that her death still somehow comes as a shock. . . . Goldman's beautifully written, deeply felt ode to his wife . . . lets you meet this unusual woman through Goldman's lovestruck gaze, and you can't help falling for her a little too. Even after the book ends, the sting of Aura's absence lingers." --"Entertainment Weekly "(A-) "A masterpiece of storytelling and scene-setting."--Colm Toibin, "The Guardian "(Best Books of 2011) "Goldman's searing novel "Say Her Name" is for me the book of the year. . . . A soaring paean to a brilliant young woman and to the infinite invincible power of love."--Junot Diaz, "New York" (Favorite Books of the Year) "Passionate and moving . . . Beautifully written... the truth that emerges in this book has less to do with the mystery of [Aura's] death . . . than with the miracle of the astonishing, spirited, deeply original young woman Goldman so adored....So remarkable is this resurrection that at times I felt the book itself had a pulse."--"The New York Times Book Review" "To call Francisco Goldman's book about the death of his young Mexican wife an elegy hardly represents it. Lament is closer, but insufficient. It is a chain of eruptions, a meteor shower; not just telling but bombarding us in a loss that glitters. With the power and fine temper of its writing, it is as much poem as prose. . . . Tense set pieces, respectively heartbreaking and ch

Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. But instead he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain. Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe-and always through the prism of her gifted writings-Goldman seeks her essence and grieves her loss. Humour leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of utter grief and creates a living portrait of a love as joyous and playful as it is deep and profound. Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura-who she was and who she would have been.