Fiction & Literature
El lector de Julio Verne
Almudena Grandes
Synopsis
Nino, the young son of a Civil Guard officer, grows up in a village in postwar Andalusia. Friendship with a mysterious outsider and the discovery of adventure novels gradually change his understanding of the adults around him and of the violence sustaining their world.
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