When his marriage and career fall apart, a young lawyer sets out on a desperate mission to recapture the promise of his youth. His attempt leaves him stranded between a past he no longer recognizes and a life that’s no longer his, and he soon begins to suspect that the surest path to happiness lies in simply giving up. Losing Is What Matters is a moving, tragicomic novel about defeat, memory, and the seductive prospect of losing it all.
Manuel Pérez Subirana was born in 1971 in Barcelona and studied law. Losing Is What Matters, his literary debut, was enthusiastically received by critics in Spain. He is also the author of the novel Egipto, short-listed for the prestigious Herralde Prize in 2005.
Allen Young is a freelance translator. He is also the translator of Losing Is What Matters, also available from Dalkey Archive Press.