by Juan Goytisolo · Alfaguara · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788420483153
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«La cuarentena» is the novel by Juan Goytisolo, published by Alfaguara in paperback (180 pages, in Spanish).
After the sudden death of a friend, the narrator decides to accompany her with imagination and writing during the quarantine: the period in which, according to Muslim tradition, the soul remains in an intermediate space after being interrogated by the angels of death.
The novel was originally published in 1991; this edition in the Alfaguara Bolsillo collection is from 1999.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and followers of the work of Juan Goytisolo.
Juan Goytisolo Gay was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
