by Juan Marsé · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439598206
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«Rabos de lagartija» is the novel by Spanish writer Juan Marsé, published in 2002 by Planeta DeAgostini in paperback (354 pages, in Spanish).
Set in postwar Barcelona, it follows David, a teenager who escapes reality through imagination. Alongside him appear his dog Chispa, Inspector Galván, and Rosa Bartra, a pregnant redhead. David's father, a fugitive libertarian, appears in an old photograph as the confidant of his fantasies.
It won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa. The work belongs to the collection Los grandes autores de la narrativa española actual.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and historical fiction, with an interest in postwar characters and atmospheres.
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.
