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«La forja de un ladrón» is the novel by Francisco Umbral published in 1998 in hardback (246 pages, in Spanish).
Set in post-war Spain, the novel follows a young man who grows up amid scarcity and corruption and ends up making a living through black market dealings and theft. Umbral presents that survival as an art form requiring skill and mental agility, while the protagonist forges himself before a mother of almost martyr-like purity.
The work belongs to the «Francesillo» series and won the Fernando Lara Novel Prize in 1997.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and those interested in literature set in the post-war period.
Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez, better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.
