by Adolfo Bioy Casares · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440719898
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«Un campeón desparejo» is the novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, published by Promoción y Ediciones in hardcover (109 pages, in Spanish).
Morales, a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, longs for Valentina, the love he let slip away through cowardice. After picking up two passengers, he begins to experience strange situations in which a prodigious force turns him into a hero, though that luck is not enough to fulfill his desires. A short, bittersweet novel.
The cover of this edition indicates that Adolfo Bioy Casares received the Cervantes Prize in 1990.
For readers of contemporary Spanish-language fiction and for those who appreciate short stories with ordinary characters and extraordinary situations.
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel.
