THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER FOR "THE STORY OF SHUGGIE BAIN" RETURNS.

At fifteen years old, Mungo, a teenager with a sensibility different from the rest of the neighborhood kids, lives in a working-class neighborhood of post-Thatcher-era Glasgow, in a Protestant family: fatherless, with an alcoholic mother and a brother who represents everything he hates. In a masculinized environment, surrounded by unemployment and street fighting, he only has the support and care of his sister, Jodie. After a family dispute, his mother decides to send Mungo fishing with two strangers from Alcoholics Anonymous to help them mold him into a worthwhile man. On the way to a lake in western Scotland with these strangers whose drunken jokes hide a murky past, Mungo can only think about returning to his friend James, the only place where he has discovered he can be himself.

With lyrical and vivid prose, Douglas Stuart brings us closer to the dangerous first love between two teenagers in this lucid and moving story about the sense of masculinity and duty to family, the violence faced by queer identities, and the risks of loving someone too much.

Book details:

Written by: Douglas Stuart

Publisher: Random House

Language: Spanish

Paperback: 464 pages

Weight: 567 g

Dimensions: 13.67 x 3.02 x 22.96 cm

ISBN: 978-84-397-4143-5

EAN: 9788439741435