by Javier Cercas · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467211894
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«La velocidad de la luz» is the novel by Javier Cercas, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (279 pages, in Spanish).
A young aspiring novelist travels in 1987 to a university in the American Midwest and befriends Rodney Falk, a surly Vietnam veteran marked by his past. Years later, upon achieving literary success, the narrator understands the magnitude of that experience and the weight of guilt.
Novel by Javier Cercas (1962), published in 2005 by Círculo de Lectores. The work was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007 and won the Premio San Clemente.
Javier Cercas Mena is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. Awards he has won for his novels include the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Soldiers of Salamis, and the European Book Prize for The Impostor.
