by Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422634812
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«La gran ilusión» is the novel by Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (142 pages, in Spanish).
An anonymous librarian, withdrawn from social life, investigates the death of a writer in a Paris alley. The investigation takes him to Bayonne in the late sixties, where three friends fond of cinema shared the dream of escaping their environment, fuelled by the films shown in provincial cinemas. That dream was cut short and its effects mark the present.
The novel won the Herralde Novel Prize in 1989. This Círculo de Lectores edition has a dust jacket and a 21 x 12 cm format.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction, especially those who enjoy stories about cinema, memory and friendship.
Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz is a prolific Spanish writer. He has published more than 50 books in a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, travel and literary criticism. He is an acknowledged expert on the life and work of Pio Baroja. Among his major novels are La gran ilusión and No existe tal lugar which won the Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana in 1998.
