The World

Juan José Millás · 2007 CE · Novel · Spanish · Contemporary

An autobiographical novel of a Madrid childhood in the 1950s, confined to a single street, a family and the death of a friend. It won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa and the Planeta, and is the book where Millas most plainly writes his own boyhood.

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