Love-Fifteen
By Antonio SkármetaTranslated by Jonathan Tittler
ISBN: 0-935480-82-X
Price: $14.00
Pages: 128
Meet Raymond Papst, a middle-aged, Harvard-educated physician living the life of luxury provided by his wife's family. One day Raymond gives up everything to pursue Sophie Mass, a fifteen-year-old tennis star. In this Latin American version of Lolita, Antonio Skármeta reveals with a mischievous smile, another side of the rich and famous, depicting the human hunger for endless youth and perfect love.
Since winning the Casa de las Américas prize in 1969, Chilean author Antonio Skármeta is considered one of the leading Latin American writers of the Post-Boom generation. Winner of numerous international awards, Skármeta has recently added the coveted Giovanni Boccio 1996 to his list of prizes. Skármeta's best-known novel, The Postman, has been a world success and became the hit file, Il Postino (The Postman).
"[A] lusty... intrigue illustrating the soulless lives
of the very rich and famous."
--Publishers Weekly