by Mario Lacruz · EDB FICCION · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466615570
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«Intemperancia» is the existentialist novel by Mario Lacruz, published in 2005 by EDB Ficción in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Castilla la Vieja in the late 1940s, Pedro Ballester, son of wealthy farmers, is convicted of a crime he did not commit. In prison he discovers friendship and the longing for freedom; after escaping, he crosses the plateau as a fugitive and reaches Portugal, where he tries to rebuild his life under another identity.
The work was published on 9 February 2005 in the Ficcionario collection of Ediciones B and includes a prologue by Julio Llamazares.
For readers of literary fiction seeking stories of flight, identity and guilt set in 1940s Spain.
