by Jesús Zárate · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432000232
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«La cárcel» is the novel by Jesús Zárate, published by Planeta in hardback (290 pages, in Spanish).
Antonio Castán, accused of a crime he did not commit, writes a diary in a Colombian prison about his fellow inmates: Mister Alba, an ingenious adventurer; Braulio, a sentimental bigamist; and David Fresno, a bohemian student who forges cheques. The plot explores freedom, confinement, innocence and guilt, until a riot and a murder change it.
Jesús Zárate Moreno, a Colombian writer, is the author of La cárcel, winner of the Planeta Prize in 1972.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish American fiction interested in prison stories and reflections on freedom.
