Amarga Navidad – Plastic Books
Amarga Navidad – Plastic Books

Amarga Navidad

RESERVOIR BOOKS
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR
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Regular price £20.00 GBP
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Pages
224 pp.
Language
Spanish
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Year
2026
ISBN
9791387740627
Dimensions
15.6 x 2.11 x 22.0 cm
Written by
Pedro Almodóvar

The book that accompanies Pedro Almodóvar's new film, a story about the close relationship between reality and fiction, between inspiration and life.

Amarga Navidad shows us two alternating stories. The first begins in December 2004, during the long Constitution Day holiday, and is centered on Elsa, an advertising director, as well as her boyfriend Bonifacio and her friends Patricia and Natalia. The second takes place in 2026 and its protagonist is Raúl, a screenwriter and director who is immersed in writing a script: we soon discover that it is Elsa’s story. She is, in a way, Raúl’s alter ego, who turns to autofiction as a solution to a long creative drought. He looks inside himself and cannot help but also look at the people who make up his most intimate universe, who are his partner and his assistant.

This edition contains, in addition to the film’s script, an appendix with comments on its creative process and filming, signed by Almodóvar himself; it is also richly illustrated in full color with frames from the film, images from the shoot, and storyboard excerpts, and closes with a beautiful and personal text, as an epilogue, by Gustavo Martín Garzo. Amarga Navidad is a book that serves as the perfect companion to the feature film and will attract all lovers of cinema and culture.

Critics have said:

“One of the filmmaker’s deepest and most profound films. Everything happens quietly. But everything weighs heavily. The story of a woman struck by a loss she cannot process becomes a universal reflection on how we move forward when what we loved no longer exists.”
Alberto Pinteño, Harper’s Bazaar

Title
Amarga Navidad
Author
Pedro Almodóvar
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Year
2026
Language
Español
Pages
224 pp.
ISBN
9791387740627
Categories
Contemporary Literature & Fiction , Libros en español (Special Features Stores) , Genre Literature & Fiction
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