Luisita Lopez Torregrosa

Before the Rain (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of Love and Revolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Takes us to the exotic and pillaged places of the earth... and into the hearts of two passionate, revolutionary women who dared to love and lose." -Carole DeSanti, author ofThe Unruly Passions of Eugénie R In a voice haunting and filled with longing,Before the Raintells the story of love unexpected, its fragile bounds and subtle perils. As a newspaper editor in the '80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her career. Enter Elizabeth, a striking, reserved, and elusive writer with whom Torregrosa falls deeply in love. Their story-irresistible romance, overlapping ambitions, and fragile union-unfolds as the narrative shifts to the Philippines and the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. There, on that beautiful, troubled island, the couple creates a world of their own, while covering political chaos and bloody upheavals. What was effortless abroad becomes less idyllic when they return to the United States, and their ending becomes as surprising and revealing as their beginning. Torregrosa captures the way love transforms those who experience it for an unforgettable, but often too brief, time. This book is distinguished not only by its strong, unique, and conflicted heroines, but also by Torregrosa's lyrical portrait of the Philippines and the even more exotic heart of intimacy. "Spare, precise and soulful, Before the Rain is an epic travelogue of the heart.It has the urgency of a front page news story, but then, no matter what is happening in the world, love is always revolutionary when it happens to you." -Bob Morris, author ofAssisted Loving "As Torregrosa fashions in her oblique and beautiful fashion, the two women could never really acknowledge their love publicly, underscoring a sad truth to thismemorablework." -Publishers Weekly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547669236
• Artikelnr.: 40176040

Autorenporträt

Luisita López Torregrosa is the author of The Noise of Infinite Longing and was an editor at the New York Times. As a special correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle she reported firsthand on the coup attempts against President Corazon Aquino, the communist insurgency in the Philippines, and the protests in South Korea that led to the fall of authoritarian rule. Her articles also have appeared in Vanity Fair, New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, and Vogue.