by Luis Landero · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483835081
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«Juegos de la edad tardía» is the literary novel by Luis Landero, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
Gregorio Olías, a gray office worker who has buried his youthful aspirations, meets Gil by phone, a mature man who idealizes the past. Gil revives his old dreams in him, and his metamorphosis into Faroni, a caricature of a successful artist, leads to a dangerous game from which there is no return.
Volume 6 of the Maxi collection. Novel originally published in 1989, winner of the Premio de la Crítica and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary Spanish narrative, interested in stories about identity and youthful dreams.
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.
