Outlaws

Resumen del libro

In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the work, when there was any, was poorly paid and the housing squalid. Out of this world of limited opportunities a generation of delinquents arose whose prospects were stifled and whose rebellion would be brief and violent...One summer's day in Gerona a bespectacled, sixteen-year-old Ignacio Canas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement arcade, when a charismatic teenager walks in with the most beautiful girl Canas has ever seen.

Zarco and Tere take over his pinball machine and his life. Thirty years on and now a successful criminal defence lawyer, Canas has tried to put that long, hot summer of drugs, yearning and delinquency behind him. But when Tere appears in his office and asks him to represent El Zarco, who has been in prison all this time, what else can Gafitas do but accept.

A powerful novel of love and hate, of loyalty and betrayal, of true integrity and the prison celebrity can become, Outlaws confirms Javier Cercas as one of the most thrilling novelists writing anywhere in the world today.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Javier Cercas x{0026}lt;/B (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Gerona, Honorary Fellow de la Universidad de Oxford y profesor honorario de la Universidad Diego Portales, en Chile. Traducida a más de treinta lenguas, su obra consta de las siguientes novelas: x{0026}lt;I El móvilx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El inquilinox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El vientre de la ballenax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Soldados de Salaminax{0026}lt;/I (The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Premio Grinzane-Cavour, Premio de la Crítica de Chile, Premio Ciudad de Barcelona, Premi Llibreter, Premio Salambó, entre otros), x{0026}lt;I La velocidad de la luzx{0026}lt;/I (Athens Prize for Literatura, Premio Arzobisto Juan de San Clemente, Premio Fernando Lara, ex aequo), x{0026}lt;I Anatomía de un instantex{0026}lt;/I (Premio Nacional de Narrativa, Premio Internacional Terenci Moix, Premio Mondello Città di Palermo, Prix Jean Moner, Premio Radovan Galonja), x{0026}lt;I Las leyes de la frontera x{0026}lt;/I (Prix Méditérranée Étranger, Premio Correntes d'Escritas, Premio Mandarache), x{0026}lt;I El impostor x{0026}lt;/I (Prix du Libre Europeén, Premio Internazionale Isola D'Elba, Premio Internazionale Ceppo di Pistoia, Premio Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente, Premio Taofen a la mejor novela extranjera publicada en China), x{0026}lt;I El monarca de las sombras x{0026}lt;/I (Prix Malraux), x{0026}lt;I Terra Altax{0026}lt;/I (Premio Planeta y Dagger Prize), x{0026}lt;I Independenciax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El castillo de Barbazul x{0026}lt;/I (Premio Internazionale NordSud). También ha publicado libros misceláneos -x{0026}lt;I Una buena temporadax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Relatos realesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La verdad de Agamenónx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Formas de ocultarsex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I No callarx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I La aventura de escribirx{0026}lt;/I - y ensayos: x{0026}lt;I La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El punto ciegox{0026}lt;/I . Ha recibido además diversos premios de ensayo y de periodismo, como el Francesco de Sanctis, en Italia, o el Joaquín Romero Murube y el Francisco Cerecedo, en España, así como diversos reconocimientos a toda su carrera, entre ellos el Premio EÑE, en España, el Prix Ulysse o el Prix Dialogo, en Francia, o el Premio Internazionale del Salone del Libro di Torino, el Premio Friuladria, el Premio Internazionale Città di Vigevano o el Premio Sicilia, todos ellos en Italia, , así como el International Literary Flame Award en Montenegro.x{0026}lt;/P