David's alcoholic father, who is being pursued for political reasons, has deserted David and his attractive red-haired mother. David inhabits a fantasy world, fuelled by the films he sees at his local cinema and by images of war - Spitfires crashing into the sea, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima - and by the image of an RAF pilot whose photograph is pinned on his bedroom wall. David and his friend spend their time collecting detachable lizards' tails; symbolic of the detachment and uncertainty which characterises their young lives in troubled post-war Spain. Lizard Tails was winner of the Spanish National Narrative Prize.

Lizard Tails

Literature & Fiction

Juan Marsé

Contemporary

Vintage Books USA

A prize-winning autobiographical novel by one of Spain's most respected writers, in which the harsh reality of post-war Barcelona merges with the fabulous exoticism of an imaginary Shanghai..In impoverished post-civil war Barcelona, fourteen-year-old Daniel fills in time between school and starting work as a jeweller's apprentice by taking on the care of an elderly and eccentric sea captain, whose campaign against a suspected gas leak exposes him to the ridicule of his neighbours.\nWith little to enliven the grey atmosphere and dull routines of the battle-scarred city, Daniel becomes increasingly drawn to the beautiful and bed-ridden Susana, who spends her days dreaming of seeing her fugitive father, Kim, again. When a mysterious stranger arrives at the villa with magical tales of the Shanghai underworld and Kim's noble exploits there, both Daniel and Susana suppress their questions and willingly fall under his spell.\nAn intoxicating tale of the human spirit, Shanghai Nights is a compelling, illuminating novel about children that has a great deal to say about adulthood.

Shanghai Nights

Vintage Books

A family of Republican sympathisers are still recovering from defeat in Spain's harrowing Civil War. David has been deserted by his father, an alcoholic, political fugitive, and left alone with his pregnant mother. The fantasy world young David inhabits is fuelled by the films he sees at his local cinema and by images of war - Spitfires crashing into the sea, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima - and by the image of an RAF pilot, Captain O'Flynn, whose photograph from a magazine cover is pinned on his bedroom wall. The detachable lizards' tails which David and his friend collect become symbolic of the detachment and uncertainty so much a part of their young lives in a troubled country.

Vintage, UK

HARVILL/SECKER

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Wagenbach Klaus GmbH

Un viejo militante de la guerrilla urbana de posguerra, ex boxeador y atracador de bancos, vuelve a su casa tras cumplir una larga condena en las cárceles franquistas. Ello da lugar a una magistral crónica negra de unos personajes que han vivido la dramática circunstancia de una guerra perdida y sueñan con desatar un terrible ajuste de cuentas. Relato de acción al tiempo que novela intimista, esta espléndida obra pertenece a la mejor producción de Juan Marsé.

Un Dia Volvere

Plaza y Janés.

En su imico libro de relatos, Teniente Bravo Juan Marse reune tres historias magistrales donde, con prodigiosa tecnica narrativa, se dan cita sus principales motivos literarios. En Historias de detectives, cuatro muchachos, encerrados en un Lincoln abollado y herrumbroso con el solo juguete de su imaginacion, dan alas a su fantasia. Mezclados con el humo azul de sus aromaticos cigarrillos de regaliz, los relatos de crimenes y viudas peligrosas, de enrevesadas intrigas y amores desdichados llenan el interior del automovil. A lo lejos, Barcelona se extiende a sus pies, andrajosa y gris como agua estancada. La critica mordaz, ironica, patetica y a menudo divertida de la bravura obcecada de un militar franquista en Teniente Bravo constituye, sin duda, uno de los hitos en la historia de la narracion breve de las letras hispanas. Y finalmente, en El fantasma del Cine Roxy, los mitos del celuloide, turbadores espectros del pasado, conviven con la realidad del presente, encarnada en un banco construido sobre las ruinas de un antiguo cine de barrio cuyos heroes se resisten a desaparecer.

Teniente bravo

MARSE,JUAN

Juan MarsÃ©

Plaza & Janes Editores,S.A.

Si te Dicen que Caí

Barcelona. 19 cm. 470 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Biblioteca de Juan Marsé', numero coleccion(5). Marsé, Juan 1933-. Biblioteca de autor. numero coleccion( 5). El Ave Fénix. 158/5 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-01-42815-7

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Lizard Tails

Shanghai Nights

Lizard Tails

Shanghai Nights

Letzte Tage mit Teresa

Un Dia Volvere

Teniente bravo

Si te Dicen que Caí

Ultimás tardes con Teresa

El embrujo de Shanghai