by Juan Goytisolo · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423309962
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«Duelo en el paraíso» is the novel by Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo, published by Destino in paperback (282 pages, in Spanish).
During the Spanish Civil War, Abel, an orphaned boy, takes refuge in El Paraíso, a decaying manor house in the Catalan Pyrenees. There he lives alongside Republican soldiers, vagrants, and other refugee children. The violence of the conflict seeps into their games, which end up imitating the brutality of the adult world.
Originally published in 1955, this edition is number 63 of the Destinolibro collection, from Ediciones Destino.
For readers of historical fiction and Spanish narrative interested in the Civil War as a setting and in the work of Juan Goytisolo.
Juan Goytisolo Gay was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
