by Albertine Sarrazin · Lumen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426442468
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«El astrágalo» is the autobiographical novel by Albertine Sarrazin, published by Lumen in paperback (185 pages, in Spanish).
El astrágalo narrates the flight of Anne, a young woman who escapes from Amiens prison and fractures her talus bone jumping over the wall. On the way she meets Julien, a criminal who takes her in, in a marginal world of danger and survival. Sarrazin's raw, colloquial prose portrays the underworld and the longing for freedom.
This edition belongs to the Ediciones de Bolsillo. Literatura collection (no. 246), translated by Javier Albiñana. The author, who died in 1967, also wrote La fuga.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction and autobiographical stories with a marginal setting.
Albertine Sarrazin was a French author. She was best known for her semi-autobiographical novel L'Astragale.
