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Love in Lowercase

A Novel

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

A feel-good novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Rosie Project, about an eccentric, language-loving bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to life’s little pleasures
The Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick:
“A delightfully absurd, life-affirming celebration. I literally stood up and cheered as I read the last page.”

When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year’s Day, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized moments—until an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray, brindle-furred cat, becomes the catalyst that leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and classical music to places he’s never been (next door) and to people he might never have met (a neighbor with whom he’s never exchanged a word). Even better, the Catalan cat leads him back to the mysterious Gabriela, whom he thought he’d lost long before, and shows him, in this international bestseller for fans of The Rosie Project, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, and A Man Called Ove, that sometimes love is hiding in the smallest characters.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Scott Aiello lends a steady and studious voice to this beloved translation from Spanish about serendipity, happenstance, and love. A cat arrives on Samuel's doorstep on New Year's Day, sparking a series of events that leads the lonely linguistics professor to venture outside his books and routine. Aiello's narration starts out uninflected, a style that works well for Samuel's early musings on the cat's appearance. As Samuel grows emotionally, Aiello's inflection changes. The author dramatizes the phenomenon in which "a small act of kindness sets off a chain of events that come around again in the form of multiplied love." The narration, which supports the sweet story rather than outshining it, allows the listener to ponder these events. A.L.C. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 14, 2015
      This novel, the quirky tale of Barcelona linguistics professor Samuel, a mysterious cat named Mishima, and the bumpy road to love, is an international bestseller in its original Spanish edition. As the tale begins on New Year’s Eve, Samuel is predicting that the coming year will be as uneventful and predictable as those that preceded it—until a cat mysteriously shows up at his apartment and makes itself at home. While seeking to find out where the cat came from, Samuel meets eccentric neighbors, rediscovers a childhood love, and ultimately comes to realize that love can be found anywhere, if one looks for it. Miralles’s endearing romantic comedy should become as big a hit Stateside as it has been elsewhere in the world.

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