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Parthian Books Under the Dust
Exploring a boy's childhood in Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship, "Under the Dust" is based on the autobiographical experience of prize-winning Catalan author Jordi Coca. In period and location - an oppressive late 1940s and early 50s when the dictatorship's repression was strongly felt at all levels of people's everyday lives - the novel echoes the recent bestseller "The Shadow of the Wind". But the affecting closeness of the boy's first-person narrative and its pitiless realism set this book apart. The boy's bewildered responses to his father's violence and authoritarianism are played out at home and in a neighbourhood dominated by street gangs, where politics is never more than a block away. This novel was awarded the Sant Jordi prize in 2000. "A tough implacable novel that makes no concessions...its ending has a rawness to chill the spirit of the hardiest reader." - Avui.
£10.03
Edicions 62 La nit de les papallones
Genial, agosarada, intuïtiva i vital, la Carla se sent autènticament lliure en la Barcelona grisa i cansada dels primers anys setanta. La seva aparició fulgurant en el món del music-hall suposa un autèntic capgirament estètic i moral. Les seves creacions enlluernadores, originals i plenes de talent, no tenen res a veure amb la rutina que aleshores dominava els espectacles nocturns tant en el petit escenari de la Bodega Apolo com en El Molino.Descoberta per un obscur periodista, aviat trobarem la Carla regnant en el locals de moda: Panam's, Bocaccio, Lord Black, Jazz Colon, o bé perduda al Drugstore. Els artistes i intellectuals progressistes l'adoren, l'afalaguen i l'acaben convertint en un símbol del canvi i de la modernitat. Però la nit té laberints temptadors, i darrere aquesta noia bella, suggerent i pertorbadora, s'amaga una dona immensament vulnerable, que en el fons tan sols vol gaudir de la vida amb plenitud.Escrita com un homenatge a l'striper Christa Leem, Jordi Coca s'endins
£18.92
