Miguel Gomes – författare

Miguel Gomes makes his debut in English with the masterful Portrait of a Gentleman.The story of Lucio Cavaliero, a Venezuelan writer and cosmopolitan libertine, is a vibrant and thrilling account of carnivalesque exile in New York. Against the backdrop of his home country's political turmoil, Lucio drifts from room to room, bed to bed, living hand to mouth, dragging a sexual secret (literally) while on the run from Chavez's henchman. Lust gives way to love and love to a son's mourning as Lucio visits Italy and Spain searching for beauty and his roots.A modern-day homage to Rabelais and Roth, Portrait of a Gentleman is a ribald and erudite meditation on poetry, music, language, and the erotic--a portrait of the artist as a middle-aged rake.

Es war ein sonniger Tag im Frühling, als Miguel Gomes die schreckliche Diagnose erhielt: primäre myelofibrose. Die Welt schien sich auf einen Schlag zu drehen und er fühlte sich wie gelähmt. Wie sollte sie das schaffen? Wie sollte ser fur sich versorgen und gleichzeitig gegen diese Krankheit kämpfen?