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GCDS-9780872863491 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100975630 02 0872863492 03 9780872863491 15 9780872863491 BC 1 A01 Goytisolo, Juan Juan Goytisolo Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931. Since 1956 he has lived in voluntary exile outside Spain and now lives in Marrakesh. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Carribean Prize for Literature. His most recent books are State of Siege, The Garden of Secrets, Landscapes of War, and The Marx Family Saga. 2 B06 Bush, Peter Peter Bush Peter Bush is the Director of the British Center for Literary Translations at the University of East Anglia. He has translated the work of Juan Carlos Onetti and Senel Paz and recently edited an anthology of Cuban stories, <em>The Voice of the Turtle</em>. 01 eng 185 01 <P>Surreal fiction from Juan Goytisolo, Spain's greatest living writer. A resurrected Karl and Jenny Marx sitting on their sofa in Hampstead watching a television documentary about the landing of Albanian refugees on a private Italian beach, flourishing photocopies of dollar bills in search of paradise Dallas. Find out how Karl reacts to the demise of the systems Josef Visionariovitch and Co. built on his word! Read all about the family life of the Marxes, moving upmarket from Dean Street to Highgate and beyond, yet never free of the hock shop. Marx visits scenes of former triumphs in Moscow, where MacLenin T-shirts and harmburger freedom are all the rage, and returns to a Hampstead housewarming reception and ball filmed by the cameras for a Merchant-Ivoryish Red Baroness-which subsequently becomes the subject of a Saturday-night talk show featuring a feminist sexologist from UCLA, an anarchist from the Spanish Civil Bar, Bakunin . . . But the narrator's publisher, the urbane pipe-smoking Mr. Faulkner, wants a best-selling novel, a proper story with real facts and heart-rending descriptions of the Marx menage. Some hope!</P> 02 Surreal fiction from Juan Goytisolo, Spain's greatest living writer. A resurrected Karl and Jenny Marx sitting on their sofa in Hampstead watching a television documentary about the landing of Albanian refugees on a private Italian beach, flourishing... 08 "The most important living novelist from Spain." Guardian 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100975630/images/87286100975630L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100975630/images/87286100975630S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100975630 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19990101 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19990101 01 02 10.95 USD