by Luis Mateo Díez · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420424194
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In 'La Fuente de la Edad' (The Fountain of Age), Luis Mateo Díez transports us to the fifties in a Spanish provincial city, where the Cofradía, a peculiar group more inclined to the alcoholic and esoteric, embarks on a search for a mythical fountain with rejuvenating waters. This adventure becomes a metaphor for escaping the monotony and lack of imagination of society. The novel explores the tension between reality and fantasy, and the struggle between the established and the search for the extraordinary. A work that stands out for its precise and elegant prose, consolidating Luis Mateo Díez as one of the great contemporary narrators in the Spanish language.
Luis Mateo Díez Rodríguez is a Spanish writer. He has written widely in a variety of genres, and has published over 50 books to date. He is best known for his works that focus on the fictional Kingdom of Celama. Two of his novels have won both the Premio de la Crítica and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa - La fuente de la edad in 1986, and La ruina del cielo in 2000. Díez also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in 2020.
