Exploring a boy's childhood in Barcelona during the Franco
dictatorship, "Under the Dust" is based on the autobiographical
experience of prize-winning Catalan author Jordi Coca. In period
and location - an oppressive late 1940s and early 50s when the
dictatorship's repression was strongly felt at all levels of
people's everyday lives - the novel echoes the recent bestseller
"The Shadow of the Wind". But the affecting closeness of the boy's
first-person narrative and its pitiless realism set this book
apart. The boy's bewildered responses to his father's violence and
authoritarianism are played out at home and in a neighbourhood
dominated by street gangs, where politics is never more than a
block away. This novel was awarded the Sant Jordi prize in 2000. "A
tough implacable novel that makes no concessions...its ending has a
rawness to chill the spirit of the hardiest reader." - Avui.
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