Colegio Mayor / College Hall [Spanish]

By Lucía Taboada

Un deslumbrante debut literario.

Luc a Taboada explora las trampas de la amistad, la p rdida de la inocencia y el v rtigo de descubrir que hay personas que no son exactamente como imagin bamos.

« ramos estudiantes euf ricos, reci n llegados a un mundo que todav a parec a dispuesto a concedernos todas las oportunidades posibles. Camin bamos por el campus con los pulmones inflados de soberan a y el cerebro saturado de conocimientos que confund amos con certezas. No ten amos experiencia, ni prudencia, ni mucho menos dinero, pero s dieciocho a os y, por tanto, todo el futuro era nuestro. Esa es la nica edad en que esa frase no suena verdaderamente rid cula o arrogante. Nos enamor bamos deprisa, como si el amor se nos fuese a escurrir del cuerpo, dorm amos poco, cre amos que todo lo importante suced a por primera vez y que, precisamente por eso, todo era irrepetible, confund amos la melancol a con una forma de prestigio y confi bamos en que la belleza acabar a encontrando la manera de salvarnos.

Madrid, a o 2004: Flora, Lois y Jordan son tres estudiantes universitarios que se conocen en el colegio mayor donde conviven y se hacen ntimos. Una noche Jordan sufre un episodio turbio durante una fiesta y al d a siguiente abandona el colegio sin dar explicaci n. A os despu s, cuando los tres son adultos, la verdad sale a la luz, y este desencadenante pondr en un punto sin retorno a los tres amigos.

En su deslumbrante debut literario, Luc a Taboada se pregunta c mo hemos cambiado desde nuestros a os universitarios, qu sue os hemos alcanzado y a cu les nos hemos visto obligados a renunciar, y qu amigos se quedaron en el camino, y lo hace a trav s de una emocionante historia que habla de la amistad, la cultura machista o la fragilidad del amor en la generaci n millennial.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A dazzling literary debut.

Luc a Taboada explores the traps of friendship, the loss of innocence, and the dizzying realization that some people are not quite who we imagined them to be.

"We were euphoric students, newly arrived in a world that still seemed willing to offer us every possible opportunity. We walked across campus with our chests full of confidence and our minds crowded with knowledge we mistook for certainty. We had no experience, no prudence, and certainly no money--but we were eighteen, and so the whole future belonged to us. That is the only age when that phrase does not sound truly ridiculous or arrogant. We fell in love quickly, as if love might slip away from us; we slept little; we believed everything important was happening for the first time and therefore could never happen again; we mistook melancholy for a kind of prestige; and we trusted that beauty would eventually find a way to save us."

Madrid, 2004: Flora, Lois, and Jordan are three university students who meet at the residence hall where they live and quickly become close friends. One night, Jordan experiences a troubling incident during a party, and the next day he leaves without explanation. Years later, when all three are adults, the truth comes to light--and that revelation pushes the friends past the point of no return.

In her dazzling literary debut, Luc a Taboada asks how much we have changed since our university years: which dreams we achieved, which ones we were forced to give up, and which friendships we lost along the way. She does so through a moving story about friendship, sexist culture, and the fragility of love among millennials.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8401022665
• ISBN13: 9788401022661
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
• Length: 272 Pages