by Juan Marse Carbo (Author)
David's alcoholic father, who is being pursued for political reasons, has deserted David and his attractive red-haired mother. David inhabits a fantasy world, fuelled by the films he sees at his local cinema and by images of war - Spitfires crashing into the sea, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima - and by the image of an RAF pilot whose photograph is pinned on his bedroom wall. David and his friend spend their time collecting detachable lizards' tails; symbolic of the detachment and uncertainty which characterises their young lives in troubled post-war Spain. Lizard Tails was winner of the Spanish National Narrative Prize.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05 Feb 2004
ISBN 10: 009945517X
ISBN 13: 9780099455172
Book Overview: In this masterly and unforgettable evocation of childhood and adolescence Marse evokes family life in a suburb of Barcelona, at the end of World War II and in the aftermath of Spain's harrowing Civil War.