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Title: This Too Shall Pass
Author: Milena Busquets, Valerie Miles - translator
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-16-17
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Random House presents the audiobook edition of This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets, read by Mozhan Marno .
Forty years old and suddenly motherless, Blanca is left shocked and rudderless by the death of the most important person in her life. To deal with her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, a change of scenery, and sex.
Leaving Barcelona behind, she returns to her mothers former home in Cadaqués on the coast, accompanied by her two sons, two ex-husbands, and two best friends, with plans to meet her married lover.
Haunted by both the past and the present, Blanca spends the summer in this impossibly beautiful place alongside those she loves most. In loss she learns to find resilience and hope and what it means to live, truly and happily, on her own terms.
Members Reviews:
One woman's journey coming to terms with her mother's death
"This Too Shall Pass" is the story of a forty year old woman, mother of two boys (from two different men) coming to terms with her mum's death. The story unfolds in the Spanish village of Cadaques, on the shores the Mediterranean Sea. Blanca finds herself in Cadaques with her two ex husbands, a lover, two children, girl friends and the family dog. The story is narrated in Blanca's voice. Funny at times, sad at other times, the story will appeal to every reader, but more so to anyone who has ever had to deal with coming to terms with the loss of a loved one.
A Smart, Sophisticated Spanish Beach Book
THIS TOO SHALL PASS has been a European smash, which made me eager to read it, though I wish I had the ability to tackle this novel in its original Spanish--I always worry that in translation, some richness disappears.There were a few "happy as a clam" "spring in my step" cliches. But only a few. The language in this novel is one of its strong points, along with character development. (Don't look for a galloping plot.)
Milana Busquet's short book is, essentially, a love letter from a daughter to her complicated mother, who has just died, and had allowed Blanca, the book's narrator, "to remain a little girl until I was forty years old." Warning: if you don't/didn't have a good relationship with your own mom, this book may leave you envious or depressed. But that's a small price to pay for an inner monologues which is lush, lively and often often funny and wise. "When the world begins to depopulate of the people who love us, we become, little by little and following the rhythm of death, strangers." Consider, also, "I used to measure how much I could trust a person by whether they would have been a collaborator in France, but now my trial by fire is whether they would send me to a nursing home.
Much of the book takes place in Cadeques, a beach town near Barcelona. It's fair to call this novel a beach book--of the best sort.
Conversations between rich 40 somethings - meh
This is the story of a 40 something woman dealing with the death of her mother who was the matriarch of her family's fortune. For me, it was just okay. It was mostly a lot of conversations about how Blanca is now the new matriarch and how is she going to be able to handle it all. Her mother was the hostess and now she must be.
