by José Ángel Mañas · Ediciones Destino S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423326068
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«Mensaka» is the novel by José Ángel Mañas, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (165 pages, in Spanish).
David on drums, Fran on guitar and Javi on bass are three young musicians who play in seedy bars while negotiating their next album with a multinational. Mañas portrays with colloquial language their daily life of precarious jobs and traffic jams, and in the background, friendship, ambition and the search for a place of their own in contemporary Madrid.
Novel originally published in 1995; this edition is from 1999 and belongs to the Áncora y Delfín collection of Ediciones Destino.
Readers of contemporary Spanish fiction looking for a generational portrait of urban youth and the music scene of the nineties.
José Ángel Mañas is a Spanish writer. Mañas is often included as a member of the generation of neorealist Spanish writers from the 1990s, along with Juan Gracia, Gabriela Bustelo, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria. His books have been translated into several languages.
