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The Garden of Secrets

The Garden of Secrets

by JuanGoytisolo (Author), PeterBush (Translator)

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    Hardcover 2000

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Synopsis

Consisting of 28 stories, which make up the four week of a month in the garden, or the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. The character invented, investigated and discussed in the stories in Eusebio. In fact, Eusebio is no more the protagonist than the language itself.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Edition: First Edition In English. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 17 Aug 2000
ISBN 10: 1852426594
ISBN 13: 9781852426590

Media Reviews
?This work deserves the highest recognition? no-one can deny Juan Goytisolo is the main Spanish novelist on active service? Carlos Fuentes ?A beautifully written metaphor for what it means to seek out the truth in a world often dominated by lies? The Garden of Secrets reminds us that this author, now 70 years of age, is one of the most brilliant of living writers? Los Angeles Times ?Goytisolo?s extraordinary lyrical and imaginative gifts are simultaneously forceful and beguiling, and the only response is to give in to the tumultuous, hallucinatory voices? Observer ?Goytisolo writes like no-one else except maybe Genet; with rigour, anguish, the blackest humour ? and a keen eye for masculine (preferably uniformed) beauty ? Gay Times ?Fantastically imaginative and intensely moral? Scotsman ?The best thing since sliced tortilla? The Times ?Spain?s greatest iconoclast smashes the mirror of narrative, magically reassembles it and teleports the reader into a looking-glass world? Mary Flanagan
Author Bio
Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature. He lives in Morocco.