by Juan Marsé · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497930635
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«Si te dicen que caí» is the novel by Juan Marsé published by Debolsillo in paperback (376 pages, in Spanish).
A novel set in postwar Barcelona, in which Marsé reconstructs childhood memory through voices that contradict and disguise themselves. Banned at the time by censorship, it portrays life under Francoism in a poor neighbourhood marked by hunger, fear and cold.
Originally published in 1973; this Debolsillo edition belongs to the Contemporánea collection and its cover bears the mention of Juan Marsé's Cervantes Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary Spanish literature; recommended for ages 16 and up.
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.
