The Invisible Years

Rodrigo Hasbún

ISBN 10: 1646054156 / ISBN 13: 9781646054152

Editore: Deep Vellum Publishing, US, 2026

"It's impossible to get a single answer from the past. It's not a key to anything. It's just a place we go to trick ourselves."Andrea and Julián haven't seen one another in twenty-one years-not since the tragic, fateful night their senior year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A startling phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their upper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia?and the scandal that ripped them apart.A writer unhappy in his career and his marriage, Julián has been novelizing the past for his next book, trying to make meaning out of the events that changed the course of their lives forever. "I'd thought that writing about that time would free me, relieve the burden of the invisible years," he writes, "but often it seems that it's done the reverse." Juxtaposing the naïve invincibility of adolescence with the grasping uncertainties of adulthood, The Invisible Years deftly weaves a coming-of-age tale that leaves the reader hanging on every word, even as they know how the cards fall in the end. Codice articolo LU-9781646054152

Riassunto:

“It’s impossible to get a singleanswer from the past. It’s not a key to anything. It’s just a place we go totrick ourselves.”

Andrea and Julián haven’t seen oneanother in twenty-one years—not since that tragic, fateful night their senioryear of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shockingphone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravelthe truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from theirupper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart.

A writer unhappy in his career andhis marriage, Julián has been novelizing the past for his next book, trying tomake meaning out of the events that changed the course of their lives forever. “I’dthought that writing about that time would free me, relieve the burden of theinvisible years,” he writes, “but often it seems that it’s done the reverse.”Juxtaposing the naïve invincibility of adolescence with the grasping uncertaintiesof adulthood, The Invisible Years deftly weaves a coming-of-age tale thatleaves the reader hanging on every word, even as they know how the cards fallin the end.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian writer and screenwriter. He is the author of eight works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Affections (Simon & Schuster), which received an English PEN Award and has been translated into twelve languages. Named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2010, Hasbún’s short stories have appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Houston.

Lily Meyer is a translator, critic, and author of the novel Short War (Deep Vellum). A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird (Deep Vellum) and Ice for Martians (Columbia University Press). Her novel The End of Romance is forthcoming from Viking. 

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Titolo: The Invisible Years
Casa editrice: Deep Vellum Publishing, US
Data di pubblicazione: 2026
Legatura: Hardback
Condizione: New