
El juego sigue sin mí
Siruela, 2015 | The Game Goes On Without Me
Awards
***2014 Café Gijón Prize***
“A fast-paced tale of discovery and initiation, packed with cultural references, which grabs the reader from the very first page.” Antonio Colinas, Judge on the 2014 Café Gijón Prize
Press
“An enthralling novel about grief, secrets, thwarted love, and the beautiful, blistering wounds that life can inflict.” Rosa Montero
“An outstanding contemporary take on a time-honoured literary genre: the coming-of-age novel.” Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
«An exemplary novel, of deceptive simplicity, that grabs the reader’s attention from page one.» Marcos Giralt Torrente
«An existential thriller, a fast-paced novel with sensational dialog, written with the delicate touch of one of the finest writers of his generation.» Mercedes Monmany
«The novel offers up a wealth of speculative musings (both transcendental and artistic) that never get in the way of the human interest (…) while again demonstrating his penchant for intimate fables. An entertaining and moving coming-of-age novel.» Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural
«A superb coming-of-age novel. In my opinion, one of the finest winners of the Café de Gijón Prize in recent editions.» M. Rodríguez Rivero, El País
«An intimate, free-flowing fable that pays homage to the joys of storytelling. (…) A moving coming-of-age novel.» Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Mundo
«Casariego has written great YA novels and has a keen insight into the turbulent years leading up to adulthood, and all their contradictions (...) The novel’s strength lies in the unexpected final twist that forces the protagonist to reassess all his live so far and readers to make sense of what they have read.» Sagrario Fernández Prieto, La Razón
«Triumphantly claims its place in the coming-of-age genre. The author skilfully paces events, portraying his characters with pinpoint precision. A book whose reader-friendliness is matched by the thousand-and-one nuances contained within.» Ángela Pérez, El Imparcial
«Delightfully empathetic, in the purest tradition of Proust and his Marcel, Joyce and his young artist, Goethe… Natural, not scolding, pared-down prose and dialog that has the ring of the harsh turth.» Ángeles López, Librújula
«Intelligent, melancholic, a reminder that life flickers out, leaving only memory behind. Excellent.»
Fernando R. Lafuente, ABC
Synopsis
(The Game Goes On Without Me) Ismael looks back on a time when he was thirteen years old and his grades were failing. His parents turned to Rai, a boy five years his senior and very popular at high-school, to tutor him. After an unsuccessful first session, Rai and Ismael make a pact: if the boy studies in his own time, his tutor will introduce him to books, movies, music, life, etc. And also tell him about Samuel, a young man who wrote to his ex-girlfriend threatening to take his own life if she stood him up.
From this intriguing start, Martin Casariego has written a coming-of-age novel, the story of the transition from teenager to adulthood, of family and the new ways the young now forge relationships, of the dangers posed by this decisive stage of life, of the burden of existence and of how to lighten the load. A story shrouded in shadows, doubt and secrets, in which the white whale our narrator is fleeing from will rear its head years later, changing everything and forcing him to reassess the past.
- Demasiado no es suficiente
- Mi precio es ninguno
- Yo fumo para olvidar que tú bebes
- Con las suelas al viento
- Escrito en el cielo. Madrid imaginada en la literatura (1977-2017)
- El capitán Miguel y Juan el Navegante
- Como los pájaros aman el aire
- El capitán Miguel y el misterio de la daga milanesa
- Un amigo así
- La jauría y la niebla
- Por el camino de Ulectra
- Nieve al sol
- Dos en una
- Campos enteros llenos de flores
- La primavera corta, el largo invierno
- Qué poca prisa se da el amor
- La hija del coronel
- El chico que imitaba a Roberto Carlos
- Mi precio es ninguno
- Y decirte alguna estupidez, por ejemplo, te quiero
- Algunas chicas son como todas
- Qué te voy a contar
- La colección «Pisco»
MB Authors
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Xenia GARCÍA
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ramon MAS
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Amarna MILLER
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Carmen ROMERO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI