Learning to Lose
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The translator would like to thank David Trueba, Javier Calvo, Doug Fielding, and Dídac.
Copyright © 2008 David Trueba
Copyright © 2008 Editorial Anagrama
Originally published in Spanish as Saber perder by Editorial Anagrama, S.A., Barcelona, Spain, in 2008
Translation copyright © 2009 Mara Faye Lethem
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“Lullaby” (1937) copyright © 1940 & 1968 by W. H. Auden, from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
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Trueba, David, 1969-
[Saber perder. English]
Learning to lose / David Trueba ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
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Originally published in Spanish as Saber perder in 2008.
eISBN: 978-1-59051-388-0
1. Teenage girls—Fiction. 2. Traffic accident victims—Fiction. 3. Soccer players—Fiction. 4. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 5. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 6. Guilt—Fiction. 7. Fear of failure—Fiction. 8. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 9. Madrid (Spain)—Fiction. 10. Psychological fiction. I. Lethem, Mara. II. Title.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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