by Manuel Vicent · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420435633
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«Ava en la noche» is the novel by Manuel Vicent, published by Alfaguara in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
David, a young man raised by the Mediterranean, moves to Madrid in the early sixties to fulfil a dream: to meet Ava Gardner and become a film director. The novel sets the nights of cinema and glamour against the grey days of Franco's dictatorship, interweaving fiction and reality in a Madrid of contrasts.
The novel belongs to Alfaguara's Hispánica collection and was awarded the Lletraferit Prize for Valencian Culture 2021.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in 1960s Madrid, Francoism and the world of cinema.
Manuel Vicent is a Spanish writer. He was born in La Vilavella, Castellón and studied philosophy and law at the University of Valencia. A prolific author, he has written more than 40 books. He has won several literary prizes, including the Premio Nadal and the Premio Alfaguara, which he won twice.
