by Juan Marsé · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422664215
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«Si te dicen que caí» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (357 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative is set in postwar Barcelona and follows a group of young people growing up amid repression, poverty and disillusionment. Marsé builds a story with a non-linear structure, multiple narrative voices and plots that cross without warning, where memory and imagination blur the boundaries of what happened. Through this portrait of childhood and adolescence, the novel offers a critical look at moral survival in a hostile environment.
Recommended for readers interested in postwar Spanish fiction and in novels that demand careful, active reading.
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.
