Las bicicletas son para el verano

Synopsis of Las bicicletas son para el verano

«Las bicicletas son para el verano» is the play by Fernando Fernán Gómez, published by Espasa in paperback (259 pages, in Spanish).

In Madrid, in the summer of 1936, the Civil War breaks out. Luisito fails physics and wants his father to buy him a bicycle, but the purchase is postponed as the conflict drags on. The play follows a family and their neighbours in their daily life: fear, hunger and repression mark ordinary people trapped by history.

It corresponds to the new edition of the Austral Collection, with an introduction by Eduardo Haro Tecglen, a documentary appendix by Luis Fernández Fernández and photographs of the theatrical production.

For secondary school students and readers interested in 20th-century Spanish theatre; it is considered one of the most relevant Spanish dramatic works.