PREORDER - RELEASES NOVEMBER 3rd 2023
A metafictional novel about two intertwined stories of love that seek to perpetuate themselves in history.
The Worst Thing of All Is the Light tells two stories. First, that of the friendship of two heterosexual men, Koldo and Edorta, through the decades of the late twentieth century in Spain’s Basque Country. In the book Edorta writes in order to try and save from oblivion his relationship with Koldo—a bond for which the word “friendship” falls short yet for which he is too afraid to use the word “love.” It is the story of two men who are in love and don’t know it, or don’t want to know it. The second story is that of its author, José Luis Serrano, in the present day as he enjoys his summer holiday in the same Basque Country and talks with his husband at length about many different things, but mostly about how to narrate the relationship of Koldo and Edorta, two men who did not allow themselves to construct the domestic life that their counterparts enjoy today. Together these stories show a love that the lovers hope will outlive them, a love that is the same even if we give it different labels.
- Publisher : Seagull Books
- November 3, 2023
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 200 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1803092564
- ISBN-13 : 978-1803092560
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
About The Author:
José Luis Serrano was born in Ciudad Real, Spain, in 1967, and holds degrees in mathematics and history. Since 2006, he has written extensively on LGBT cinema, literature, music and art. He is a co-author of the homoerotic poetry blog La Taberna del Mar. His works include the novels Hermano (2011) and Sebastián en la laguna (2013) and the collection of short stories La tomb del chicle Bazooka (2012). The Worst Thing of All Is the Light, published in Spanish in 2015, is his third novel.
