by Luis Mateo Díez · Santillana USA Pub Co Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420480398
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«La fuente de la edad» is the fiction novel by Luis Mateo Díez, published by Santillana USA Pub Co Inc in paperback (298 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a provincial city in the 1950s, it follows the members of a brotherhood more given to drinking and the esoteric than to penance. Their wild nocturnal adventure in search of a legendary fountain of miraculous waters becomes an escape from the conventional world and the axis of the conflict between reality and imagination.
It belongs to the Alfaguara Hispánica collection. The novel received the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction and Spanish narrative, interested in humor, irony, and social criticism.
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.
