by Juan Marsé · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432070204
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«El amante bilingüe» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by Planeta in hardback (220 pages, in Spanish).
After being abandoned by his wife, a lady of the upper bourgeoisie, a man decides to become the charnego Faneca to try to win her back. The work blends irony and drama to portray class differences and the social and linguistic duality of Catalonia at the end of the 20th century, with a protagonist trapped between two identities.
Winner of the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize in 1990. Part of the Spanish and Latin American Authors collection.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and stories with social and identity undertones.
Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
