by Luis Landero · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483839294
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«El balcón en invierno» is the autobiographical account by Luis Landero, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
Landero recalls his childhood in a family of farm laborers in Alburquerque (Extremadura) and his adolescence in Madrid's Prosperidad neighborhood: jobs in shops and workshops, night studies, the dream of becoming a guitarist, and the chance that led a boy from a house without books to become a writer.
Volume 838 of the Andanzas collection; it received the Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild and the Dulce Chacón Prize (2015).
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction, especially those interested in memoirs and coming-of-age stories.
Luis Landero is a Spanish writer. He was born in Alburquerque, Badajoz and made his literary debut through the 1989 novel Juegos de la edad tardía. Subsequent novels include Caballeros de fortuna (1994), El mágico aprendiz (1998), El guitarrista (2002), Hoy, Júpiter (2007), Retrato de un hombre inmaduro (2010), Absolución, El balcón en invierno (2014) and La vida negociable (2017). He has been translated into several European languages.
