by Luis Landero · EL MUNDO: LAS 100 MEJORES NOVELAS EN CASTELLANO DEL SIGLO XX · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303346
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«Juegos de la edad tardía» is the novel by Luis Landero, published in El Mundo's collection in hardback (446 pages, in Spanish).
Gregorio Olías, a grey office worker, has buried his youthful dreams until he meets Gil by phone, a man who idealises the past. Together they start a dangerous game: Gregorio reinvents himself as Faroni, a successful artist, and that fiction ends up dominating his life. A novel about identity, idealisation and lost dreams.
Luis Landero debuted with this novel in 1989. It won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa. This 2001 edition includes a prologue by Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction who appreciate humour and reflection on middle age.
Luis Landero is a Spanish writer. He was born in Alburquerque, Badajoz and made his literary debut through the 1989 novel Juegos de la edad tardía. Subsequent novels include Caballeros de fortuna (1994), El mágico aprendiz (1998), El guitarrista (2002), Hoy, Júpiter (2007), Retrato de un hombre inmaduro (2010), Absolución, El balcón en invierno (2014) and La vida negociable (2017). He has been translated into several European languages.
