by Luis Landero · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490662175
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«El balcón en invierno» is the coming-of-age novel by Luis Landero, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator, a writer leaning over the balcony, recalls a conversation with his mother fifty years earlier and evokes his childhood in a farming family from Alburquerque (Extremadura) and his adolescence in Madrid's Prosperidad neighborhood. Between jobs and night studies, he discovers literature and dreams of becoming a guitarist.
This edition belongs to the Maxi collection from Maxi-Tusquets and was published on March 8, 2016, in Spain.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction 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.
