by Juan Marsé · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426402790
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«Esa puta tan distinguida» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by Lumen in hardcover (240 pages, in Spanish).
In post-war Barcelona, a prostitute is murdered in the booth of the Delicias cinema in January 1949. Fermín Sicart, the manager, confesses to the crime without remembering the motive. Decades later, in 1982, turning the event into a movie leads to an inquiry into memory, oblivion and the boundary between reality and fiction.
First edition, published in April 2016. Juan Marsé, its author, received the Cervantes Prize for Spanish Letters in 2009.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and followers of Juan Marsé, with an interest in 20th-century Barcelona and the traps of memory.
Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
