
La otra ciudad
Espasa Calpe, 2003 | The Other City
Press
«A magnificent first novel (…)a journalistic approach in which no details are lost and which the author has been able to enrich with the sensitivity of a good storyteller.» Care Santos, La Vanguardia
Synopsis
(The Other City) It’s not easy being Paco. Growing up in a working class neighbourhood in an Andalusian city, it seems like all the odds are stacked against him. His dreary youth is plagued by injustice. He is marginalized and has very little access to work or culture. His father is an alcoholic and his brother is a drug addict. But Paco has learned to take refuge in his own imagination, his deep friendship with Richa, and the love that he finds in Nadia. She is a Moroccan immigrant who, like him, struggles to survive in a world filled with disappointment and misunderstanding. La otra ciudad is an intimate and tender human story. It is a critical social portrait of anonymous survivors who are constantly forced to put themselves to the test and who can never afford to let their guard down. At the same time, it is an exciting elegy to love and friendship, the only valid means of support for maintaining dignity and hope.
Film Rights: TVE (Spanish National Television)
MB Authors Fiction
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Olivia GALLO
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Gemma RUIZ
- Màrius SERRA
- Ramon SOLSONA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI