10th ANNIVERSARY OF TAN POCA VIDA

The literary phenomenon that has broken the hearts of millions of readers, best novel of the year according to the press and finalist for the Man Book Prize and the National Book Award

“This novel questioned everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It’s one of those books that stays with you forever.”
Dua Lipa

“With Tan poca vida I was getting up at 7 in the morning just to read it. It has been the biggest addiction I’ve had lately and it broke my soul.”
Javier Ambrossi

“Captivatingly addictive, [...] it captures the spirit of the times: hypersensitivity [...] personal, solitary, isolated, similar to that shown by the characters of Sally Rooney.”
Laura Fernández

Four college friends move to New York, where they only have their friendship and ambition to make their way. Willem is handsome, kind, and wants to be an actor; JB is a witty and sometimes cruel painter, determined to stand out in the tough art world; Malcolm is a dreamy architect, and Jude is the withdrawn, brilliant, and enigmatic young man who soon becomes the center of the group. Over several decades, their relationships grow more intimate and deep, while being tinged with addiction, success, and pride. However, their greatest challenge will be Jude himself, forever wounded by a traumatic childhood.

To understand what men say and keep silent about, where guilt comes from and where it goes, how much sex matters, who we can call a friend, and finally, what life is worth when it no longer has value, here is Tan poca vida: the iconic book of the new generations, considered best novel of the year by the international press, finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award, and one of the greatest literary phenomena of the last decade.

Lumen joins the other publishers of the author to celebrate with her the tenth anniversary of the publication of her novel with a special commemorative edition.

Best novel of the year according to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, The Guardian, The Economist, Newsweek, People, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Review, among others.

Critics have said:

“In Tan poca vida there is too much life, and it is an everyday life, at times tiny, that expands on the page in a Napoleonic way, growing in its condition as a microcosm that threatens to devour the world.”
Laura Fernández

“One of the most impressive, challenging, disturbing, and moving novels of recent years.”
Marita Alonso, Elle

“I do not exaggerate when I say this novel questioned everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It’s one of those books that stays with you forever. [...] Exquisitely written and relentlessly sad.”
Dua Lipa

“It seeks its excellence in the treatment of pain, [...] fascinates the reader and glimpses beauty in aberration.”
Enrique de Hériz, El Periódico

“The most eloquent autopsy of suffering modern masculinity.”
Daniel Arjona, El Confidencial

“A dazzling ability to move, to grip from the gut in a feverish reading, uncomfortable at times and cathartic at others.”
Marcos Torío, El Mundo

“An extraordinary book. [...] I would give anything to write a novel as powerful as Tan poca vida.”
James Rhodes

“It reads like a drug.”
Elena Méndez, La Voz de Galicia