by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020107730
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«La Joyeuse Bande d'Atzavara» is the novel by Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published by Seuil in paperback (324 pages, in French).
In the summer of 1974, a group of affluent professionals settles in Atzavara, near Tarragona, and turns some houses into their summer refuge. A young man from a different social background joins the group to get ahead; four narrators recall that encounter as a portrait of the contradictions of the modern bourgeoisie and their youthful dreams.
Translation from Spanish by Bernard Cohen; the edition belongs to the Cadre vert collection and comprises 324 pages.
For readers interested in Spanish fiction translated into French and in choral novels of social portraiture.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer from Barcelona: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and an FC Barcelona supporter.
