β Scribed by AndrΓ©s Barba
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"Andres Barba needs no introduction. He has his own intentional world perfectly contained and a literary gift that belies his age." --Mario Vargas Llosa
"A story that has been described as an explosive clash between Pavese's The Beautiful Summer and the adolescents of Gus van Sant's Elephant."--Daniel Entrialgo, Esquire
"A new Spanish great, that's all I need to say." --Lire
Fourteen-year-old Tomas goes with his well-off family on their usual seaside summer holiday, but he is at a stage in his life when nothing is the same. Sullenly detached from them, full of confused intimations of sexuality, he is also faced with death when his widowed aunt, who lives in the resort, is taken seriously ill. As he becomes close to her on her deathbed he frequents the forbidden in the form of some lower-class village kids--casually transgressive boys and even more alien, sexually knowing girls--that will get him...
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