by Alejandro Gándara · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420480282
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«La media distancia» is the novel by Alejandro Gándara, published by Alfaguara in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist, El Charro, is a 1500-meter runner who recalls his rise and fall: arriving in Madrid, sporting success, heartbreak, and victories that soon become forgotten defeats. The novel explores fame, the passage of time, and the difficulty of recognizing oneself when glory fades.
Published in 1984, it was Alejandro Gándara's first novel and is part of the Alfaguara Nueva Ficción Nostromo collection.
For readers of Spanish fiction interested in stories where sport, memory and identity intertwine.
Alejandro Gándara is a Spanish writer. Born in Santander, Cantabria, Gandara studied political science and sociology at Complutense University in Madrid, where he also now teaches. He won the Premio Ignacio Aldecoa for short stories in 1979, and published his first novel La media distancia in 1984. He has published more than a dozen volumes of fiction and non-fiction, and his work has been translated into English, German and Italian among other languages.
