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Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas
Wounded Innocence
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Acantilado
March 2016
144 pages
Narrative, Novel
Original Title: La inocencia lesionada
In the first decade after the Spanish Civil War, life in Masnou, a coastal village not far from Barcelona, sedately flows around a respectable middle-class family, symbol of domestic harmony. Carlos is immersed in this apparently friction-free world but rancour, violence, police reprisals and sexual brutality soon start corroding its idyllic facade. He begins to see the sordid reality of a tragedy which will end up devouring the whole town and, with it, the Oria dynasty. This is the most disconcerting, tender and painful novel Masoliver Ródenas has written to date.
Praises
«A provocative novel in which Masoliver’s greatest virtue as a writer shines through: freedom».
«Masoliver sketches a devastating portrait of the closing years of the 1940s».
«There is no emotional respite for the reader in this story».
La Vanguardia
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Acantilado
March 2016
1 pages
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