_______________ 'His novels probe the sore spots and raw wounds of
contemporary Spain, their cunning and complexity leavened by a
light touch and an easy, graceful style' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent
on Sunday 'The beauty of this intelligently probing novel is that
one is left wondering if we ever truly know anything about anybody
- that anybody including ourselves' - Scotsman 'Compelling ... the
real strengths of the book are in Cercas's unadorned prose, once
again deftly translated by Anne McLean, and in his ear for the
rhythms of everyday speech' - Guardian _______________ Longlisted
for the Dublin Literary Award 2016, this novel from the author of
Soldiers of Salamis and The Anatomy of a Moment tells the story of
three teenage outsiders in post-Franco Spain 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.
_______________ 'Cercas adroitly balances the earlier criminal
thrills with the later moral and emotional complexities' - New
Statesman 'A moving meditation on youth, love, betrayal and the
media, as well as an uncompromising political novel. Cercas has yet
again expanded our idea of what fiction can do' - Juan Gabriel
Vasquez, author of The Secret History of Costaguana
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