Golden girl

Literature & Fiction

MARSE,JUAN

World Literature

Little,Brown

<p>When Señora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unravel until after her death. In Ringo's Barcelona, life endures in the shadow of civil war - the Fascist regime oversees all. Inspired by glimpses of Hollywood glamour, he finds his own form of resistance, escaping into myths of his own making, recast as a heroic cowboy or an intrepid big-game hunter. But when he finds himself inveigled as a go-between into an affair far beyond his juvenile comprehension, he is forced to turn from his interior world and unleash his talent for invention on the lives of others. And all the while he is left to wonder - what could have happened to Señora Mir that day to send her so far beyond the edge of reason? The Calligraphy of Dreams is a luminescent coming-of-age novel with a devilish twist. Reminiscent of Atonement and The Go-between , it is the culmination of the life's work of one of the greatest living Spanish men of letters.</p>

Calligraphy of Dreams

Literary

MacLehose Press

The Snares of Memory

Humor & Satire

The Calligraphy of Dreams

Quercus Publishing

Adieu la vie, adieu l'amour

Genre Fiction

BOURGOIS

L'amant bilingue

Calligraphie des rêves

Der zweisprachige Liebhaber (German Edition)

Bartos, Hoppner

Contemporary

Klaus Wagenbach Verlag

Un dia volvere / One Day I'll Come Back (Spanish Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Aims Intl Books Corp

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

Juan Marsé

Juan MarsÃ©

Plaza & Janes Editores,S.A.

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