入圍法國麥迪西文學獎的最佳外文作品決選名單！
Shortlisted for the Prix Médicis Étranger 2010
Awarded for National Critics Award 2009
Shortlisted for Dulce Chacón Award 2009
Rights sold:
(Spain, Anagrama / Pocket, Compactos / Club: Círculo de lectores) ; (Brazil, Rocco); (France, Flammarion); (Germany, Kiepenheuer); (Italy, Feltrinelli); (The Netherlands, Ambo/Anthos); (Portugal, Santillana Constância); (USA, The Other Press); (UK, Portobello)
Reviews:
“…Trueba scores with his story about the need people have to connect to others, whether through sports, love or money.”---Cleveland Plain Dealer
“One part Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, one part Paul Haggis’ Crash, the rest is all David Trueba, modern day Madrid, and a narrative that pulsates with longing, lust and simmering rage. Don’t dare pick it up if you have plans for the weekend, or for the rest of the day for that matter. It’s that good. I was casting the adaptation in my mind as I tore through it. Vivid, real and raw, the novel is at once unsparing and entirely humane. Simply masterful.”---Joe McGinniss, Jr., author of The Delivery Man
“Learning to Lose is complex, powerful, surprising and most of all smart. David Trueba is the real thing. I had a lot of work on my desk and it is still on my desk. I have however read Mr. Trueba’s novel. Enough said.”---Percival Everett, author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier
«An elegantly written coming-of-age novel with the requisite broken hearts and mixed signals.» ---Kirkus
«David Trueba brings a cinematic pacing, a very visual sensibility and the feel of an ensemble movie to this, his third novel… Lush, intricate and rewarding one.» ---The Herald
«A screenwriter and director in Spain, in this involving ensemble piece Trueba shows a cinematic flair for the way urban lives intersect – and collide. Against the isolation of the big city, the urge to connect with others binds a snaking, swerving tale.» ---Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
«Complex, powerful, surprising and most of all smart. David Trueba is the real thing.» ---Percival Everett, author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier
«A masterly polyphony.» ---Augustin Trapenard, Le Magazine Littéraire
«David Trueba has conceived an admirably woven story not to be missed.»---Robert Solé, Le Monde
«Wonderful, the novel is a detailed, sincere and abrasive portrait. One of the literary rentrée events!» ---Serge Bressan, Le Quotidien
«A Multidimensional Tapestry of a Novel.»---Bookpage.com
«Really very good.» ---Javier Cercas
«A perfect balance between tone and theme (…) An excellent novel.» ---J.E. Ayala-Dip, El País
«Pure literature (…) precise construction, in admirable doses (…)An excellent novel (…) an exception to the greyness of our current literature. A splendid gift.» ---Ricardo Senabre, El Cultural
«A profound novel, charged with emotional intelligence.» ---Andrés Sánchez Magro, La Razón
«In Saber perder a gallery of honest characters achieves a narrative tension that allows the novelist to emerge victorious in the field of the game.» ---E. Lahoz, El Periódico