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El cordero carnívorosecond-hand

Published by Cabaret Voltaire · Fiction · ISBN 9788494218576

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A novel that follows a boy's life from birth to the age of twenty-five, within a family of the Andalusian bourgeoisie. Through his strange relationship with the people around him, Gómez Arcos shows the wounds the civil war left in that household.

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For readers ready for a harsh, provocative novel that goes into homosexuality, death, religion, freedom and dictatorship. The publisher itself describes it as politically incorrect.

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