The Calligraphy Of Dreams

Juan Marsé

Original title: Caligrafía de los sueños

earliest edition we have, 2011 Lumen, 2011 440 pages

Gracia: a working-class district of Barcelona in the shadow of civil war. Life is hard, the city is grey, the oppressive Fascist regime oversees all. With his stepfather imprisoned for opposing Franco's regime, teenager Ringo finds himself torn from his childhood pursuits and thrown into the world of work. He must find his own form of resistance, escaping his drudging reality through the power of the imagination. Ins...

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Editions we hold

Calligraphy of Dreams edition · 2015 · Quercus · 9781782064886
The Calligraphy Of Dreams edition · 2014 · Quercus Publishing Plc · 300 pages · 9780857052568
Caligrafía de los sueños paperback · 2012 · Debolsillo · 440 pages · 9788499894102
Caligrafía de los sueños edition · 2011 · Lumen · 440 pages · 9788426418982
Calligraphy of Dreams paperback · MacLehose Press · 9780857052575

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