by Juan Marsé · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497598293
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«Ronda del Guinardó» is the short novel by Juan Marsé, published by Debolsillo in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
An old police inspector accompanies a teenage girl to a hospital morgue so she can identify the body of the man who raped her two years earlier. The walk through Guinardó, in postwar Barcelona, becomes a descent into moral misery, amid the inspector's memories, echoes of World War II and a glimmer of redemption.
Originally published in 1984, it is part of Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection (No. 158). Winner of the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (Literature in Spanish Language, 1984).
For adults, it will appeal to readers of 20th-century Spanish fiction and to those who want to discover postwar Barcelona.
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.
