by Alan Hollinghurst · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433908377
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«La estrella de la guarda» is the contemporary fiction novel by Alan Hollinghurst, published by Anagrama in hardback (504 pages, in Spanish).
Edward Manners, a British teacher, arrives in a small Flemish town to teach English and becomes captivated by Luc Altidore, an enigmatic student expelled from school. While a former lover dies of AIDS in England, Edward draws closer to the figure of Edgard Orst, a symbolist painter who died during the Nazi occupation.
It belongs to the Panorama de narrativas collection, where it occupies number 367. Translation by Miguel Martínez Ripoll. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1994.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary narrative, with an interest in desire, art and identity.
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.
