Last Evenings with Teresa

<p><b>'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' </b><i>Guardian</i><br><br><b>'Juan Marsé's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable'</b> <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br><b>From one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war Barcelona.</b><br><br>Teresa is everything he wants. She is beautiful, charming, rebellious, and born with every advantage in life. He has only ever existed on the margins. A poor immigrant from Murcia, earning his living stealing and selling motorbikes, he could only ever dream of being with the daughter of the Catalan bourgeoisie. <br><br>When their desires take hold, they must face the realities of a world designed to keep them apart.<br><br>With <i>Last Evenings with Teresa</i>, Marsé has created a portrait of two unforgettable literary heroes whose love affair captures all the tensions, passions and contradictions of a generation living in the shadow of a civil war but who, despite the odds, continue to dream.<br><br>'<i>Last Evenings with Teresa</i> ... has everything one can ask of a novel; <b>it seems to have been written in a state of grace</b>' Javier Cercas<br><br>'Between illusions and realities, with his own free creative will - the opposite of the recipe for a social novel - Juan Marsé offered <b>a memorable panorama of 1950s Barcelona</b> and its wild heroism' Lluís Izquierdo <br><br>'I consider Juan Marsé <b>the best storyteller Spanish literature</b> has given us in many decades' Ignacio Echevarría <br><br>'<b>He has never written a single page where something interesting isn't happening</b>' Eduardo Mendoza<br><br>'<b>One of Spain's most acclaimed writers</b>' <i>New York Times</i></p>