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 nació en Ibahernando, Cáceres, en 1962. Su obra incluye las 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 , x{0026}lt;I La velocidad de la luzx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Anatomía de un instantex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Las leyes de la fronterax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El impostorx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El monarca de las sombrasx{0026}lt;/I y el tríptico de la Terra Alta, compuesto por x{0026}lt;I Terra Altax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Independenciax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El castillo de Barbazulx{0026}lt;/I . Sus libros se han traducido a más de treinta idiomas y han obtenido en todo el mundo importantes galardones, entre otros el Premio Nacional en España, el Independent Foreign Fiction Prize en Reino Unido, el Grinzane Cavour en Italia, el Prix Mediterranée en Francia, el Premio de la Crítica en Chile, el Correntes d'Escritas en Portugal, el Athens European Prize for Literature en Grecia, el Taofen en China o el Prix du Livre Européen otorgado por el Parlamento Europeo. Ha recibido, adema?s, premios muy prestigiosos de ensayo y periodismo, y diversos reconocimientos internacionales al conjunto de su carrera.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Es miembro de la Real Academia. x{0026}lt;I El loco de Dios en el fin del mundox{0026}lt;/I es su libro más reciente.x{0026}lt;/P