by Roddy Doyle · Editorial Bambú · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483432112
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«Como un galgo» is the young adult novel by Roddy Doyle, published by Editorial Bambú in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Mary, a twelve-year-old girl, feels death close for the first time when her grandmother falls ill. The appearance of a mysterious young woman leads her, along with her mother and grandmother, on a journey into the past in which four generations of women from an Irish family reconnect with their history to accept the present and face the future.
It belongs to the Grandes Lectores collection (number 22); its original title is A Greyhound of a Girl. It was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in 2013.
Suitable for young readers aged 12 and up, especially for those seeking stories about family, grief and bonds between generations.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
