El beso del canguro: vida de Lázaro y de sus fortunas y adversidades

✍ Scribed by Eugenia Rico

• Book ID: 101039896
• Publisher: Suma de Letras
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: Spanish
• Weight: 109 KB
• Series: Conspicua
• Category: Fiction
• City: Barcelona
• ISBN: 8491290087

✦ Synopsis

Eugenia Rico's new novel is a revision of the picaresque concept, and her complex and fascinating protagonist is a 21st-century Lazarillo de Tormes. "I'm not bad, but I think I've killed a man. I woke up with his blood on my hands, with the taste of blood in my mouth, my shirt soaked, my eyes blinded. By blood." Lázaro, rogue and sex slave, waiter and drug dealer, roams the world from mistress to master, and from body to body. Hungry for love, between promiscuity and tenderness, between hash and cocaine, builders, prostitutes, students, mature women, mafia bosses and corrupt politicians, he fights to not become an abuser like his father and to free himself from the curse that follows him: the kangaroo's kiss. Because hell is a circle and heaven is a straight line. Eugenia Rico fascinates us again with this new novel that modernizes and revitalizes the picaresque genre in a masterful way. Funny and philosophical, raw and sensual but full of poetry, we enjoy letting ourselves become tangled in this homage to Lazarillo de Tormes that is also an homage to Literature with a capital "L."

✦ Subjects

Protagonists (Persons) -- Fiction