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Call it natural selection, call it the law of the jungle, what rises to the top in the seething turmoil of Barcelona is the cream - or is it the scum? In the late 1940s the Civil War is past history but Franco is still very much in charge. Prullas, a popular playwright whose day is now past, leaves his wife by the seaside while he pursues a crowded life in the stifling city: his producer, Gaudet, wants him to persuade their rich backer Vallsigorri that they really cannot use the third-rate actress Lili whom the backer wants to foist on him. In the course of playing honest broket, however, Prullas starts an affair with Lili, but then thinks twice about crossing her protector who is, after all, backing his play, and tries to break off his liaison. Fate intervenes, however, when Vallsigorri is found murdered and Prullas is prime suspect, albeit innocent. As this is a light comedy, all ends happily. Winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, 1998.

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"He proves once again that for sheer descriptive writing he is unrivalled, as he evokes the sad ghosts of post-Civil-War Spain" Andre Clavel, L'Express; "While the story dissolves into farce, he has along the way given the reader a very clever insight into those dire years under the Franco regime; his skilful dissection of social behaviour at the time is alone sufficient to mark out this novel as one of the most durable and wisest in recent years" Rafael Conte, ABC Literario
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  • PublisherThe Harvill Press
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 1860468411
  • ISBN 13 9781860468414
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