by Carlos Casares · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471542328
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«Xoguetes pra un tempo prohibido» is Carlos Casares's coming-of-age novel, published by Galaxia in paperback (151 pages, in Galician).
It follows Elías Paz from childhood in an Ourense village to university in Compostela, alternating between second and third person. It portrays daily repression in Francoist Galicia: violence in religious schools, love marked by convention and fear, political struggle, censorship, and disillusionment. It is a landmark of the Nova Narrativa Galega.
This novel received the Galaxia Prize in 1975 and the Critics' Prize for Galician Narrative in 1976.
For readers interested in the Nova Narrativa Galega and in coming-of-age novels set during the Franco dictatorship.
Carlos Casares Mouriño was born in Ourense on 24 August 1941 and died in Nigrán on 9 March 2002. He was a Galician language writer.
