The Calligraphy of Dreams

Juan Marsé, Nick Caistor

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English

Maclehose Press
11 August 2015

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

When Senora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unravel until after her death.

In Ringo's Barcelona, life endures in the shadow of civil war - the Fascist regime oversees all. Inspired by glimpses of Hollywood glamour, he finds his own form of resistance, escaping into myths of his own making, recast as a heroic cowboy or an intrepid big-game hunter. But when he finds himself inveigled as a go-between into an affair far beyond his juvenile comprehension, he is forced to turn from his interior world and unleash his talent for invention on the lives of others.

And all the while he is left to wonder - what could have happened to Senora Mir that day to send her so far beyond the edge of reason?

The Calligraphy of Dreams is a luminescent coming-of-age novel with a devilish twist. Reminiscent of Atonement and The Go-between, it is the culmination of the life's work of one of the greatest living Spanish men of letters.

By: Juan Marsé
Translated by: Nick Caistor
Imprint: Maclehose Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 208g
ISBN: 9781782064886
ISBN 10: 1782064885
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 11 August 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Juan Marse was born in 1933 in Barcelona. He is a Spanish novelist and screenwriter, and has won numerous awards for both his novels, most recently the 2008 Cervantes Prize. Nick Caistor's translations include The Buenos Aires Quintet by Manuel Vazquez Montalban and works by Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marse and Alan Pauls.

Reviews for The Calligraphy of Dreams

Juan Marse's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable - Times Literary Supplement One of Europe's best living novelists - Independent Among Spain's finest living authors - Guardian Marse at his very best: humorous but never facetious, teasing drama out of apparently ordinary lives - Times Literary Supplement