Literary Fiction
by Juan Marsé
Set in post-Civil War Barcelona, Marsé's novel braids together the voices of street children who spin dark tales of resistance, betrayal, and survival under Franco's regime. Memory and myth intertwine as young narrators reconstruct a fragmented, forbidden past. A formally ambitious work that captures the texture of repression and the defiant power of storytelling.
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