One Hundred Love Sonnets : Cien sonetos de amor Condition:Well Read people often do well in

people often do well in spite of certain habits rather than because of them

In this propulsive novel

invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts

Compelling and timely

Aciman shows us Elio’s father Samuel

One Hundred Love Sonnets : Cien sonetos de amor Condition:Well Read people often do well inAgainst the backdrop of Isla Negra the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pacific the poet sets the poems in celebration of his love. The subject of that love is Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, the poet's 'beloved wife'.