On its 20th anniversary, the most widely read LGBT book returns in a special edition with a new cover and the story that connects it to its sequel, "Cincuenta años no son nada".
«Haven't you realized yet that there are eternal loves that last a weekend?»
While traveling by train, Marcos remembers the summer of 1970, when, as a teenager, he spent a few vacation days in Molinosviejos, his grandmother’s village. There, amid a bucolic landscape of fields, ponds, and mills, Marcos experienced love, discovered his sexuality, suffered hatred and intolerance, and saw how his life changed forever.
His brother Gus, grandmother Palmira, cousin Elena, Max the hippie, David, and the general’s children ―young defenders of the dictatorship― populate Marcos’s memories. But among them all, one stands out: Álex, the young miller who will show him a reality previously unknown.
El viaje de Marcos, winner of the Odisea Prize in 2002, is a coming-of-age novel that has already marked two generations of readers, becoming a benchmark of LGBT literature in Spanish. On its twentieth anniversary, Egales reissues it to celebrate that it remains a novel that moves and leaves a mark on all kinds of audiences, regardless of gender, age, or sexual orientation. This edition also includes the story «Viaje al Arcadia», set in the world of El viaje de Marcos and the link between this work and its continuation, Cincuenta años no son nada, as well as a prologue by Ramón Martínez, PhD in Literature.
«A book full of romance. A great publishing success» (El Mundo)
«Fifteen years before the Call Me by Your Name phenomenon, we already had this generational gay novel» (Víctor M. González, GQ Spain)
«A captivating journey to the past where love, once again, stands above life. Absolutely recommended» (Marcos Prau, Shangay)
