by Juan Marsé · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467235388
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«Últimas tardes con Teresa» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (416 pages, in Spanish).
It narrates the encounter between Manolo, el Pijoaparte, a young man from a marginal neighbourhood of Barcelona who aspires to escape his surroundings, and Teresa, a university student from the Catalan upper bourgeoisie involved in the student movement. Their relationship, marked by misunderstandings and class differences, portrays the clash between two worlds and the contradictions of the society of the time.
Work originally published in 1966, recognised with the Biblioteca Breve Prize.
Recommended for readers interested in contemporary Spanish narrative and in novels that portray post-war 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.
