by Juan Marsé · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788483462065
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«Rabos de lagartija» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by Debolsillo in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Set in postwar Barcelona, the novel brings together teenager David and his dog Chispa, Inspector Galván, and Rosa Bartra, a pregnant redhead. Between historical sadness and dreams, a fugitive libertarian father and a RAF pilot from a photograph appear, and the plot explores the boundaries between reality and fiction.
It belongs to the Contemporánea collection. It won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana (2000) and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa (2001); Juan Marsé received the Premio Cervantes in 2009.
For young and adult readers interested in contemporary Spanish narrative and the historical memory of the postwar period.
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.
