Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shocked at the unexpected loss of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realises that she has no idea what her future will look like.
To deal with her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to sex, her dearest friends, her closest family, and a change of scenery. Leaving Barcelona behind, she returns to her mother's 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. Though she is haunted by both the past and the present, Blanca embarks on a new sort of journey alongside those she loves most, one of resilience and hope, teaching her to live on with the knowledge that even the most devastating pain will eventually subside.
Wryly funny, wistfully romantic, grief-stricken, and raw, This Too Shall Pass is at once an unforgettable meditation on loss and on love, and a timeless story of what it means to find a way forward and to truly, happily live on one's own terms.
Milena Busquets Tusquets nació en Barcelona en 1972. Estudió en el Liceo Francés y se licenció en arqueología en el University College de Londres. Trabajó durante muchos años en el mundo editorial. Ésta es su segunda novela. Vive en Barcelona con sus dos hijos. El manuscrito de esta novela despertó una extraordinaria expectación en Frankfurt y se han firmado contratos de traducción en más de veinte países, en sellos literarios tan reputados como Gallimard (Francia), Suhrkamp (Alemania), Harvill Secker (Reino Unido), Rizzoli (Italia), Companhia das Letras (Brasil) y Hogarth Press (Estados Unidos).
