by Alan Hollinghurst · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433931917
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«La biblioteca de la piscina» is the novel by Alan Hollinghurst, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (376 pages, in Spanish).
William Beckwith, a young homosexual aristocrat, saves the life of Lord Nantwich, an elderly man who wants him to write his biography. Through the lord's diaries, William glimpses English gay culture, from Nantwich's time in colonial Sudan to the codes of desire of the 1980s.
First edition in 1990, translated by Jordi Fibla Feito. Panorama de narrativas collection, no. 191. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in LGBT-themed narrative and in 1980s England.
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.
