Planicio - Hardcover

Olaizola, José Luis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8432062790 ISBN 13: 9788432062797

Publisher: PLANETA: AUTORES ESPAÑOLES E HISPANOAMERICANOS, 1981

Synopsis

A classic story of a boy's coming of age set in coastal San Sebastian, Spain in 1942. Translated from Spanish by Susan Ouriou.It is the summer of 1942. Europe is ravaged by war, and in post-Civil War Spain poverty is common. With work hard to find. Pachi Lourido has turned to his passion, the handball court, where he wagers his meager income and food on the table hangs in the balance. And to make matter worse, what's he to do with a son who cant' get the simplest lessons through his head? Like how winning is everything and loyalty is well and good as long as no money is involved; how it is best to keep on the good side of the wealthy, for obvious reasons and of the priests just in case. With nothing to guide him but his father's eccentric counsel, the long suffering Planicio finds life inscrutable. He craves explanations no one with offer. Like why did his mother have to die, and could she really hear his prayers from their squalid garret apartment? From his innocence grows and intense desire to discover the world.That discovery begins when Don Roman enters their lives and the two become three. Don Roman, a kindly dying invalid, opens u new vistas to the impoverished father and son. And among the threesome, a comic conspiracy evolves where each tastes life to the fullest in a single, magical summer.But when things can get better, they can also get worse. Pachi's old habits rise to threaten the good fortune the summer has brought them, and Planicio must come to terms with the frailty of the human heart. In the summer of his thirteenth year, the time has come for Planicio to become a man.

Edition details

• Publisher: PLANETA: AUTORES ESPAÑOLES E HISPANOAMERICANOS
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 8432062790
• ISBN 13: 9788432062797
• Binding: Hardcover