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Lo Llamare Amor
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This dazzling novel is the precise action of changeable love. It is the clear name, the clear place, after the repetition of the farewell. It is the luminous fulfillment of the promise of bad love." -Carolina Sanín "I like the way agony looks, because I know it is real." Pedro Carlos Lemus's beautiful novel made me think of this verse by Emily Dickinson, because it is about a young man who has been rigorously educated in sadness. His parents—flawed, like all of them—plunged him early into the sea of abandonment, frustration, and spite. And there—like the heroines of the soap operas he adores and like in the lyrics of the songs that hurt him and heal him and hurt him—he learned to swim with ease and dignity. That is also how he learned to fall in love: with that astonishing ability to withdraw before the blow. The young man she loves also abandoned her, although perhaps he wouldn't say it that way. He would say it in a more suggestive and, for that very reason, more painful way. » Finding poetry in suffering, in opacity, in incomprehension, in the melancholic observation of the fabled "fullness" of others is one of the great merits of this novel. Like someone who slowly dissects herself to study her fragility and then translate it into images as beautiful as they are inclement, I Will Call It Love offers us a sophisticated and scandalously moving gaze. -Margarita García Robayo ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "This stunning novel is like the deadly aim of a cruel lover. It's a perfect snapshot of the moment of goodbye, the promise of a doomed romance." -Carolina Sanín "I relish the agony because I know it's real." This jewel of a novel by Pedro Carlos Lemus recalls Emily Dickinson in its portrait of a young man well-versed in sadness. Thanks to inept parents, he becomes familiar at an early age with abandonment, frustration and spite. Like the heroines of the telenovelas he loves or the lyrics of the songs he listens to - sometimes to wallow in his pain, sometimes to soothe it - he learns to navigate the world with poise and dignity. He also learns to love. But the young man he loves also abandons him, although he might not use that term. He would surely have a more insinuating and, therefore, hurtful way of putting it. "The ability to find poetry in suffering, opacity, incomprehension and the melancholy observation of other people's 'perfect' lives is one of the great merits of this novel. It's like someone slowly taking themselves apart to study their own fragility, and then translating it into images as beautiful as they are unsettling. I'll Call It Love is a sophisticated and scandalously moving novel." - Margarita García Robayo
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