by Siegfried Lenz · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472231207
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«El usurpador» is the collection of fifteen short stories by Siegfried Lenz, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Siegfried Lenz brings together fifteen stories featuring ordinary people marked by bad luck, clumsiness or insecurity. Through their small daily battles, the German author shows how their lives can lead to unexpected situations and reveal an adventurous spirit in the most unremarkable characters.
The book belongs to the Andanzas collection from Tusquets Editores. The cover reproduces a detail of the oil painting «The Old Captain» by Norman Rockwell, originally published in 1922 in Literary Digest magazine.
For readers of short fiction and contemporary European narrative who enjoy stories of common characters and everyday gestures.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
