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Fiction

Madia leva!

By Antón Grande, Quique Bordell (Ilustrador)

About this book

These are thirty ordinary stories that suddenly fit with the amazement of the unexpected. From the pubs of Lugo to the impossible skies of New York, Antón Grande walks through landscapes and peoples in his surroundings and he creates a brief, fragmented and relative universe; i.e., he narrates what could be our own existence. With the prose we have powerful illustrations as a dialogue by Quique Bordell. “Antón Grande is an author to read at dusk,” Xosé de Cora claims in his preface. “Rather I would say that it is an author to read in some public establishment, with a glass of wine, waiting for a friend to come, or a lover, or somebody who never comes”.

Book fragment

Get the party going!

He entered “Bodegas de Quiroga” treading and tumbling against the doors. He was as drunk as he could be, though he still managed to stand by the counter.

O Roxelio, when he saw him, thought of refusing to serve him, then, messing with his toupee he realised that it would be better to give him a glass of wine just to avoid the hassle. Get the party going! He said in a drunk shriek, after swallowing once, and finally he gulped it down and found support of the counter.

“That's a good one, man!,” Pepiño ‘O Chuli’ said, while he looked at him with scorn. And the worst will come tomorrow, when you try to get up and you get thunder in your head.

“Get the party going!” was all the drunkard replied while he suckled, thirsty, whatever wine was left and ordered another glass. ...