Last Evenings with Teresa - Juan Marsé, Nick Caistor (Translator)

Category: Classic, Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Spain Spanish Literature
Written by Juan Marsé, Nick Caistor (Translator)
Read by Jot Davies
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
‘Spain’s finest contemporary novelist’ Guardian
From one of Spain’s most acclaimed authors, an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war Barcelona.
Teresa is everything he wants. She is beautiful, charming, rebellious, and born with every advantage in life. He has only ever existed on the margins. A poor immigrant from Murcia, earning his living stealing and selling motorbikes, he could only ever dream of being with the daughter of the Catalan bourgeoisie.
When their desires take hold, they must face the realities of a world designed to keep them apart.
With Last Evenings with Teresa, Marsé has created a portrait of two unforgettable literary heroes whose love affair captures all the tensions, passions and contradictions of a generation living in the shadow of a civil war but who, despite the odds, continue to dream.
Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
Release date: 08-28-25
Written by Juan Marsé, Nick Caistor (Translator) Read by Jot Davies Format: M4B Bitrate: 128 Kbps Unabridged
‘Spain’s finest contemporary novelist’ Guardian
From one of Spain’s most acclaimed authors, an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war Barcelona.
Teresa is everything he wants. She is beautiful, charming, rebellious, and born with every advantage in life. He has only ever existed on the margins. A poor immigrant from Murcia, earning his living stealing and selling motorbikes, he could only ever dream of being with the daughter of the Catalan bourgeoisie.
When their desires take hold, they must face the realities of a world designed to keep them apart.
With Last Evenings with Teresa, Marsé has created a portrait of two unforgettable literary heroes whose love affair captures all the tensions, passions and contradictions of a generation living in the shadow of a civil war but who, despite the odds, continue to dream.
Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins Release date: 08-28-25