Name: The Seduction: A Novel
SKU: 65732895
Price: 706.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Sara Torres
ISBN: 9781668092989

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sara Torres

Publisher

Atria/Primero Sueno Press

Year

2026

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.96x13.49x1.12 cm

ISBN13

9781668092989

The Seduction: A Novel

Sara Torres (Author) · Atria/Primero Sueno Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Seduction: A Novel"

Unspoken tensions simmer between two women under the heat of a Catalan summer in this internationally bestselling, erotic, and quietly radical portrait of queer desire.

In a sun-drenched house on the Catalan coast, a young, queer photographer arrives to capture the portrait of a celebrated writer. But what begins as a professional collaboration slowly unravels into something more intimate and unsettling—a charged exchange of glances, silence, and shifting emotional boundaries.

The photographer, unnamed and quietly observant, is drawn to the writer’s enigmatic presence, her self-possession, her power. Over shared meals and quiet routines, the difficulty of understanding the desire of the other begins to obsess the narrator. As the summer heat thickens, so too does the unspoken tension between them, heightening the photographer’s insecurities and her perception of her own flaws. When a third woman arrives, an old friend with blurred boundaries, the fragile connection begins to unravel. Is this seduction, or projection? Intimacy, or illusion?

Told through lyrical, introspective prose, The Seduction is a poetic, slow-burn exploration of the complexities of seduction between women, intimacy, queer longing, and the quiet ache of unfulfilled connections.

Sara Torres

(Author)

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(Gijón, 1991). With the novel Lo que hay, she received the 2022 booksellers' revelation award. Her theoretical-creative work focuses on the analysis of desire, body, and discourse through a feminist and interdisciplinary critical apparatus that intertwines psychoanalysis, new materialisms, and queer studies. PhD from Queen Mary University of London. Her thesis is titled: The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings. Her first book, La otra genealogía (Madrid: Torremozas) won the Gloria Fuertes National Poetry Award. She has also published the poetry books Conjuros y Cantos, Phantasmagoria El ritual del baño, and the most recent Deseo de perro. She has a space in elDiario.es where she writes regularly.

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