by Juan Marsé · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426417275
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«Rabos de lagartija» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by Lumen in hardback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Set in postwar Barcelona, the novel follows David, a teenager accompanied by his dog Chispa, and Rosa Bartra, a pregnant redhead, among other characters trying to get by. The story introduces a peculiar narrator: an unborn child who remembers what he has not yet lived, and plays with the boundaries between reality and fiction, truth and lies, good and evil, love and heartbreak.
The book belongs to the Biblioteca Juan Marsé collection and is part of Lumen's Narrativa series. It won the Premio de la Crítica and the Premio Nacional de Literatura. The author was awarded the Premio Cervantes in 2009.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and stories about memory, childhood, and postwar Barcelona.
Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
