by Juan Marsé · Lumen · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426418982
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«Caligrafía de los sueños» is Juan Marsé's coming-of-age novel, published by Lumen in hardcover (440 pages, in Spanish).
In 1940s Barcelona, Ringo, a fifteen-year-old boy, spends his hours in Señora Paquita's bar in the Gracia neighborhood. From there he observes the relationship between Vicky Mir, a naive masseuse, and Señor Alonso, while discovering in reading and writing a way to illuminate a grey era.
Published in 2011, it was Juan Marsé's first novel after being awarded the Cervantes Prize. It belongs to Lumen's Narrativa collection.
For readers of literary fiction interested in the Spanish post-war period and in the work of Juan Marsé.
Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
