The Go-Between

Resumen del libro

'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there', begins L. P. Hartley's tale of nostalgia, the reawakening of lost memories and sexual awareness.

It is 1952. Leo, now in his sixties, comes upon an old diary describing one long, hot summer with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, where he acted as a messenger between Ted, a local farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the Hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire.

This haunting story of a young boy's awakening into the secrets of the adult world is also an unforgettable evocation of the boundaries of Edwardian society.

Biografía del autor

José Luis López Muñoz nació en Madrid en 1934. Es licenciado en medicina, doctor en filosofía y licenciado en lengua y literatura inglesas. Ha sido lector de español en la universidad de Newcastle y Assistant y Associate Professor of Spanish en la universidad de Maine. En 1980 recibió el Premio Nacional de Traducción por "Joseph Andrews", de Henry Fielding, y en el año 2000, el Premio Nacional a la Obra de un Traductor. Ha traducido obras de William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde, Saul Below y Raymond Chandler, entre otros.