by Juan Marsé · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447309221
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«La muchacha de las bragas de oro» is the novel by Spanish writer Juan Marsé, published by RBA in paperback (221 pages, in Spanish).
Luys Forest, a forgotten former Falangist writer, devotes his solitude to embellishing an uncomfortable political life in his memoirs. The arrival of his niece Mariana, a young woman with a cynical, sharp gaze, shakes up his routine and confronts him with his contradictions. The novel combines memory, desire and moral decay.
1995 edition in the «Narrativa actual» collection (number 50). The work won the Planeta Prize in 1978.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction who value ambiguous characters and the historical backdrop of Francoism.
Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
