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Under the Dust
Jordi Coca
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Description for Under the Dust
Paperback. Exploring a boy's childhood in Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship, this work is based on the autobiographical experience of prize-winning Catalan author Jordi Coca. Translator(s): Thomson, Richard. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 242.
Exploring a boy's childhood in Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship, "Under the Dust" is based on the autobiographical experience of prize-winning Catalan author Jordi Coca. In period and location - an oppressive late 1940s and early 50s when the dictatorship's repression was strongly felt at all levels of people's everyday lives - the novel echoes the recent bestseller "The Shadow of the Wind". But the affecting closeness of the boy's first-person narrative and its pitiless realism set this book apart. The boy's bewildered responses to his father's violence and authoritarianism are played out at home and in a neighbourhood dominated ... Read more
Exploring a boy's childhood in Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship, "Under the Dust" is based on the autobiographical experience of prize-winning Catalan author Jordi Coca. In period and location - an oppressive late 1940s and early 50s when the dictatorship's repression was strongly felt at all levels of people's everyday lives - the novel echoes the recent bestseller "The Shadow of the Wind". But the affecting closeness of the boy's first-person narrative and its pitiless realism set this book apart. The boy's bewildered responses to his father's violence and authoritarianism are played out at home and in a neighbourhood dominated ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905762392
SKU
V9781905762392
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Ref
99-2
About Jordi Coca
Jordi Coca is one of the most outstanding novelists in contemporary Catalan literature. He is the author of many novels that have won major literary prizes, and he also writes short fiction, essays, poetry, drama, translation and journalism.
Reviews for Under the Dust
The book's forceful style and literary skills make it electric. La Vanguardia