by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432070273
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«Las islas extraordinarias» is the novel by Spanish writer Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, published by Planeta in paperback (169 pages, in Spanish).
A detective investigates a conspiracy against a dictator in a small island state and travels across three islands where the dictatorship conditions all social life. Described on the cover as «a mocking, amusing and rather bitter fantasy about absolute power», it does not allude to any specific dictator: it portrays the essence of political power.
It belongs to the collection Autores españoles e hispanoamericanos and corresponds to the first edition, published in 1991.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction seeking a mocking political fable, without recognizable dictators.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
