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Outlaws: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016
Javier Cercas
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Description for Outlaws: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016
paperback. Translator(s): McLean, Anne. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270.
In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generation of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be brief and violent... One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old Ignacio Canas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working ... Read more
In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generation of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be brief and violent... One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old Ignacio Canas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408844205
SKU
9781408844205
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About Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment. His books have been translated ... Read more
Reviews for Outlaws: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016
A moving meditation on youth, love, betrayal and the media, as well as an uncompromising political novel. Cercas has yet again expanded our idea of what fiction can do
Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Secret History of Costaguana
His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a ... Read more
Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Secret History of Costaguana
His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a ... Read more