by Horacio Vázquez Rial · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401807305
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«La reina de oros (soap-opera)» is the novel by Horacio Vázquez Rial published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
In postwar Barcelona, Mila, a teenage prostitute, embodies evil and becomes an object of passion and servitude; the title refers to a tarot arcana. Around her cross paths Elena Vargas, Fernando, Dalmau, Rego, Servando Laín, and the painter Gorkin, in a story with erotic rawness, ethical meditation, and political pessimism.
First edition published in 1989; finalist for the 5th Plaza & Janés International Novel Prize.
Readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in the social, erotic, and political portrait of the postwar period.
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