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📖 Synopsis
Dozens of characters crossing paths in a starving Madrid. Cela portrays an entire city across a few grey days.
✍️ ChatZona's review
Cela broke the novel into pieces and scattered them across Madrid. Choral, raw and technically stunning.
🏆 Awards & recognition
🏆Nobel Prize in Literature 1989 (author)
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