by Jesús Torbado · Grupo Libro 88 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479061241
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«El inspector de vírgenes» is a short story collection by Jesús Torbado, published by Grupo Libro 88 in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
A collection of fourteen stories that move between the everyday and the unusual: encounters, farewells and misunderstandings in settings such as Morocco, Vietnam, Cuba or the Amazon region. Titles like «La novia perdida», «Besos de Vietnam» or «Vicecónsul en La Habana» give an idea of its tone and variety.
It is number 6 in the Letras hispánicas collection and corresponds to the first edition of 1991.
For readers of short fiction interested in stories set in different countries and with situations between the everyday and the unusual.
Jesús Torbado was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.
