by Sergi Pàmies · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433998743
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«El arte de llevar gabardina» is a collection of short stories by Sergi Pàmies, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (150 pages, in Spanish).
The thirteen stories mix childhood episodes, the ageing of parents and adolescent bewilderment with collective scars of the 20th century, such as 9/11, the Spanish Transition, the fall of communism and exile. Pàmies sharpens observation and uses irony, melancholy and the absurd to speak of expectations, absences and failures of maturity.
Spanish-language version by the author, published in 2019 in the Narrativas hispánicas collection. It won the Premi de la Crítica de Narrativa Catalana and the Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Contes i Narracions.
A work for those who enjoy the literary short story and brief narrative, with an ironic and melancholy register.
Sergi Pàmies is a Spanish writer, translator, journalist and television and radio presenter. He is the son of the writer Teresa Pàmies and the former general secretary of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, Gregorio López Raimundo. In his works he employs humor and parody mixing them with themes of failure and desperation. He translated works by Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Agota Kristof, Daniel Pennac and Amélie Nothomb. He received several awards for his literary works.
