by Luis Mateo Díez · Círculo de Lectores, 1987, Barcelona. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422624103
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«La fuente de la edad» is the novel by Luis Mateo Díez, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (279 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in a provincial city in the 1950s, marked by hardship and oblivion. A group of singular confraternity members, as inclined to drink and esotericism as they are alien to penance, embark on a wild nocturnal adventure in search of a legendary fountain from which a canon of prodigious memory was said to have drunk.
It won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana in 1986 and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa in 1987.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction who appreciate ironic humour and the blend of reality and fantasy.
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.
