An allegory of Franco s Spain, this first novel written by a Spanish playwright in exile during the dictatorship narrates the life of a gay man from birth until his 25th birthday. The oftentimes bizarre relationships between this young man and the people around him reveal the traumas suffered by a bourgeois Andalusian family due to the Spanish Civil War and offer readers a glimpse of the many injustices experienced by individuals within both private and public circles. Masterfully written and unabashedly politically ...
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An allegory of Franco s Spain, this first novel written by a Spanish playwright in exile during the dictatorship narrates the life of a gay man from birth until his 25th birthday. The oftentimes bizarre relationships between this young man and the people around him reveal the traumas suffered by a bourgeois Andalusian family due to the Spanish Civil War and offer readers a glimpse of the many injustices experienced by individuals within both private and public circles. Masterfully written and unabashedly politically incorrect, this novel will make readers reflect on dictatorship, death, freedom, homosexuality, human relationships, and religion but above all on love and hate."Una alegoria de la Espana franquista, esta primera novela escrita por un dramaturgo espanol exiliado durante la dictadura narra la vida de un hombre homosexual desde su nacimiento hasta que cumple los 25 anos. Las extranas relaciones entre el joven y las personas que lo rodean revelan los traumascausados por la guerra civil enuna familia de la burguesia andaluza y le ofrece al lector un vistazo de las multiples injusticias vividas por individuos tanto en publico como en privado. Magistralmente escrita y descaradamente politicamente incorrecta, esta novela hara que el lector refleje sobre la dictadura, la muerte, la libertad, la homosexualidad, las relaciones humanas y la religion pero mas que nada sobre el amor y el odio.""
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