The Flesh
A dangerous and appealing literary meditation about the body and desire at an adult age.
Single and childless, Soledad has turned sixty, which she calls “the age of the dogs”. But in her case, what many would consider a normal life, or even a chosen one, is symptomatic of a personal anomaly that she spends days and nights torturing herself about. Fate hasn’t been good to her either: her sister, Dolores, is confined to a psychiatric hospital, and her lover, Mario, has returned to an apparently happy marriage with his wife. Her job is the only thing Soledad can cling to: the curatorship of a peculiar catalogue of outcast writers that she’s preparing for an exhibition. And something undeniable since she was a girl: bodily desire, and the need to feel like a lover woman. Adam, a gigolo of Russian origin, will come into her life to satisfy that desire, leading to a dangerous relationship between him, with his dark past, and her, a woman obsessed with madness and age spots, but determined to pull out all the stops one last time.
Rosa Montero
Rosa Montero (1951) is a Spanish journalist and author of contemporary fiction. She has won quite a number of prizes for her work as a journalist. Montero's first novel - “Chronicle of Enmity”, was published in 1979, and her second - “I Will Treat You Like a Queen”, followed in 1983, had commercial success. In 1997 Montero received the “Spring Novel” Prize for her work “The Cannibal's Daughter”. In 2003 she published what she considers as one of her best works - “The Lunatic of the House", that won the "Que Leer" Prize for the best book published in Spain in 2003, and the "Grinzane Cavour" Prize for the best foreign book published in Italy in 2004. Her "Story of the Transparent King", released in 2005, also won the "Que Leer" Prize for the best book published in Spain in 2005.
Rosa Montero has written also children's stories, including “The Nest of Dreams” (1992), “Beautiful and Dark” (1993) and “The Naked Life” (1994).
