Rolling Fields Av David Trueba

<P><U><B>WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD</B></U><br><br><B><I>''</I>Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful'' </B><B><I>Mail on Sunday</I><br></B><br>Dani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died. <br><br>Fulfilling his father''s last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the city for the deserted, archaic heart of Spain, Dani revisits the key junctions of his life: his conflicted relationship with a pragmatic and authoritarian father; the mystery of his birth; his school years in the repressed atmosphere of Catholic Spain; the origin of his band and its early successes; the emptiness left by a tragically lost friendship; his great loves. <br><br>Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and featuring an unforgettable cast of characters - from Ecuadorian drivers to Spanish Bowie lookalikes - <I>Rolling Fields</I> is a novel full of