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<p><strong>A Puerto Rican student at a Paris university grapples with heartbreak and isolation in this compelling novel by the author of <em>Simone</em>.</strong></p> <p>The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thoughtーand of loveーcan both inspire and enfeeble. For the narrator of Eduardo Lalo's <em>Uselessness</em>, it is a world long desired. But as this young aspiring writer discovers upon leaving his home in San Juan to studyーto live and be rebornーin the city of his dreams, Paris's twinned influences can rip you apart.</p> <p>Lalo's first novel, <em>Uselessness</em> is something of a bildungsroman of his own student days in Paris. But more than this, it is a literary pr?cis of his oeuvreーof themes that obsess him still. Told in two parts, <em>Uselessness</em> first follows our narrator through his romantic and intellectual awakenings in Paris...楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る