by Alejandro Gándara · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420463995
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«Primer amor» is the coming-of-age novel by Alejandro Gándara, published by Alfaguara in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
A young man experiences his first passion with overwhelming intensity; falling in love overwhelms him and leaves a mark that accompanies the characters for five decades. The novel explores vulnerability in the face of first love, the ability to love again after a breakup, and the way that experience shapes the rest of one's life.
It belongs to Alfaguara's Hispánica collection. Alejandro Gándara has been awarded the Nadal and Herralde prizes.
For readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age stories about memory and love.
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.
