Lizard Tails - Couverture souple

Marse Carbo, Juan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843430215 ISBN 13 : 9781843430216

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 2003

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

In this masterly and unforgettable evocation of childhood and adolescence, Marsé paints a picture of family life in a suburb of Barcelona at the end of World War II and in the aftermath of Spain's harrowing Civil War.

David's alcoholic father, who is being pursued for political reasons, has deserted David and his attractive red-haired mother. David inhabits a fantasy world, fuelled by the films he sees at his local cinema and by images of war - Spitfires crashing into the sea, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima - and by the image of an RAF pilot whose photograph is pinned on his bedroom wall. David and his friend append their time collecting lizards' tails, which are symbols of the detachment and uncertainty which characterise their young lives in troubled post-war Spain.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A family of Republican sympathisers are still recovering from defeat in Spain's harrowing Civil War. David has been deserted by his father, an alcoholic, political fugitive, and left alone with his pregnant mother. The fantasy world young David inhabits is fuelled by the films he sees at his local cinema and by images of war - Spitfires crashing into the sea, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima - and by the image of an RAF pilot, Captain O'Flynn, whose photograph from a magazine cover is pinned on his bedroom wall. The detachable lizards' tails which David and his friend collect become symbolic of the detachment and uncertainty so much a part of their young lives in a troubled country.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1843430215
• ISBN 13: 9781843430216
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240