Marks of Identity

Juan Goytisolo author Gregory Rabassa author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:1st Jan '07

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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An exile returns to Spain from France to find that he is repelled by the fascism of Franco's Spain and drawn to the world of Muslim culture. In this novel, Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, speaks for a generation of Spaniards who were small children during the Spanish Civil War, grew up under a stifling dictatorship, and, in many cases, emigrated in desperation from their dying country.

His iconoclastic impulse shapes the novel at every level. Even the structure of the writing is a protest against what he once called the "tyrannical conception of genre" ' - The Believer

ISBN: 9781564784537

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 454g

352 pages