by Javier García Sánchez · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433909527
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«La Dama del Viento Sur» is the novel by Javier García Sánchez, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (272 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator, Andreas Dörpfeld, tells the story of his friend and colleague Hans Kruger and of the young Olga Dittersdorf, also a work colleague. The morbid obsession Kruger develops for her, his unrequited passion and the personal hell he goes through are at the centre of a delirious and murky confession.
It belongs to Anagrama's Narrativas hispánicas collection (number 142). Published in March 1993 in Barcelona, the novel falls within contemporary fiction.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and literary fiction, with an interest in stories of obsession and unrequited relationships.
Javier García Sánchez is a Spanish writer. Born in Barcelona in 1955, he studied at the Complutense University in Madrid. He edited the magazine Quimera for two years, and wrote in the culture pages of La Voz de Euskadi. He achieved literary success with his second novel La dama del viento sur, which won the Premio Pío Baroja and was translated into English by Michael Bradburn Ruster and Myrna R. Villa. He won the Premio Herralde with a later novel La historia más triste. His book on the champion road cyclist Miguel Indurain has been translated into English.
