by Luis Landero · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472236844
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«Juegos de la edad tardía» is the novel by Luis Landero, published by Maxi-Tusquets in 1993, in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
Gregorio, a gray office worker, sees his youthful dreams awaken when he meets Gil by phone, a man who idealizes the past. Gil seeks a hero to admire, and together they build Faroni, an artist figure that neither of them managed to become. When Gil decides to meet Gregorio, the fiction becomes a game from which there is no escape. A reflection on identity, nostalgia and the search for meaning in everyday life.
First novel by Luis Landero. It won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa. It is part of the Fábula collection from Maxi-Tusquets.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction in Spanish interested in Spanish narrative and fictions about identity.
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.
