Biography
A journalist and screenwriter, Rosa Aneiros is best known as a writer of adult and young adult fiction. She won prizes for her novels Resistance (2002), about two lovers involved in the resistance to the twentieth-century dictatorship in Portugal, The Sea Came to See Me (2004), about a biologist confronting the Prestige oil spill, and Winter Sun (2009), about a woman who escapes the Spanish Civil War and has to face the voices and wounds of exile. As a children’s writer, she caught attention with her novel Butterfly Wings (2009), with its cast of international characters, and most recently with the trilogy I Love You Leo A. (2013-4), about a woman who sets out to imitate Marco Polo. Rosa Aneiros works for the Council of Galician Culture in Santiago.
Synopsis
I Love You Leo A. Destination Somewhere (312 pages) is the first in a trilogy of novels about a young woman, Leo, who leaves university and decides to travel around the world in 182 days. Wherever she goes, she finds graffiti that says ‘I Love You Leo A.’ The other titles in the trilogy are I Love You Leo A. Transit Station and I Love You Leo A. Arrivals Terminal…?
Sample
Leo went through the security archway with far too much insecurity in her feet and restless pumping in her heart. That may be why the civil guard ordered her to take off her boots and passed the metal detector over her nervous body. Had it been able to measure her heartbeat, that little device would most probably have exploded as soon as it reached her chest. But it didn’t explode, possibly because such instruments know nothing about the comings and goings of the soul. Meanwhile, the X-ray machine was closely examining the contents of her rucksack. The rucksack didn’t seem exactly comfortable with its contents. It had gone from carrying sheets, folders, books and notes to holding lists of Internet addresses, descriptions in different languages, a passport, a brand-new debit card, some socks and a scarf.
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