(1st Eng. ed.) THE LIFE I GAVE YOU

The Life I Gave You at last reaches its-deserved or not-fourth edition. Its pages grant everyday emotions a place of prominence, woven together with endearingly hilarious passages born of its characters, while the narrator also occupies a space of his own, almost as one more character. Alicia and Álvaro follow different paths before their lives begin to meet. She has been bound from an early age to cooking, effort and the world of wine; he is driven by his own concerns, his affections and a particular way of looking at everything around him. Two separate journeys that eventually converge around cooking and oenology, in that generous art where food can also become memory, bond and destiny. The novel opens and closes at the same point, as though everything that happens in between formed part of a necessary circle. Along that journey, its characters discover that life is not always measured by the goal attained, but by the road travelled, by what is learned while moving forward and by the person with whom one chooses to share it. Because, if the journey itself is not enjoyed, what is life for? Perhaps it is for spending it in the best possible way, or for giving it away wrapped in all that one is. There is no finer gift than offering one's most cherished treasure: life itself, shared with the one who truly deserves to receive it.

Pages: 180, Paperback, Independently published