by Kjartan Flogstad · Lengua de Trapo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483811214
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«Gran Manila» is the novel by Kjartan Flogstad, published by Lengua de Trapo in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
Over two generations, the life of a small Norwegian town revolves around the Union Carbide factory. Its story intertwines with that of the multinational's workers in the United States and India: a choral novel portraying the social history of the twentieth century, globalisation and the power of corporations.
Number 64 in the Otras Lenguas collection. Translated by Kirsti Baggethun and Asunción Lorenzo. Originally published in 2006 as Grand Manila.
For readers of contemporary fiction and social novels interested in the impact of multinationals and twentieth-century history.
Kjartan Fløgstad is a Norwegian author. Fløgstad was born in the industrial city of Sauda in Ryfylke, Rogaland. He studied literature and linguistics at the University of Bergen. Subsequently, he worked for a period as an industrial worker and as a sailor before he debuted as a poet with his collection of poems titled Valfart (Pilgrimage) in 1968. He received the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his 1977 novel Dalen Portland. Other major works include Fyr og flamme, Kron og mynt, Grand Manila and Grense Jakobselv.
