by Daniel Sueiro · Plaza y Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401380938
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«Balada del Manzanares» is the novel by Spanish writer Daniel Sueiro, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
The action follows a young man in the red-light district of Madrid in the years after the Spanish Civil War. Amid poverty and marginalization, the protagonist faces a hostile environment where prostitution marks everyday life in the postwar period.
First edition of 1987 from the Plaza & Janés/literaria collection, with illustration by Jordi Sánchez.
For readers of Spanish fiction and those interested in postwar Madrid and life on its margins.
Daniel Sueiro (1931-1986) was a Spanish author and journalist. He was born in La Coruña and died in Madrid. He is best known for two of his ten books: the short story collection Los conspiradores (1959) which won the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and the novel Corte de corteza (1969) which won the Premio Alfaguara.
