La Edad de Tiza / The Chalk Age [Spanish]

By Álvaro Ceballos

Un debut extraordinario sobre las promesas incumplidas de la «generaci n m s preparada de la historia .

«La Edad de Tiza es la historia reciente de Espa a vista desde el patio de colegio segregado y las urbanizaciones sin pasado pero sin futuro ...]. Una novela de formaci n tr gica y tremendamente c mica que es, al mismo tiempo, una espl ndida historia de detectives y fantasmas . -Patricio Pron

«Ahora que la vida me ha arrojado como un n ufrago a las costas de mi infancia...

lvaro ha cumplido ya los treinta cuando un rev s laboral lo devuelve a la casa familiar: all sigue viviendo su madre y permanecen tambi n, a modo de fantasmas, las promesas de prosperidad de su adolescencia. Sin mucho m s que hacer, se propone desentra ar un viejo misterio que empez cuando l ten a catorce a os: la desaparici n de una cinta de v deo sobre educaci n sexual que les pusieron en clase y que dio pie a otros acontecimientos igualmente inexplicables.

Entre recuerdos dudosos, volvemos con lvaro al a o 1991, a un colegio masculino y concertado en el que se habla de la Espa a del futuro, donde las chicas est n a a os luz de distancia, los padres y los hijos son incapaces de comunicarse, y madurar significa dejar de hacer preguntas.

La Edad de Tiza es una gran novela de crecimiento disfrazada de novela de intriga: el relato de «la generaci n m s preparada de la historia , de las expectativas y las promesas que vivieron a fondo losboomers y se desvanecieron para los millenials .

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
An extraordinary debut about the broken promises of the "most prepared generation in history."

"The Chalk Age is the recent history of Spain seen from the segregated schoolyard and the urbanizations without a past but without a future ...]. A highly comic and tragic coming-of-age novel that is, at the same time, a splendid detective and ghost story." -Patricio Pron

"Now that life has thrown me like a castaway on the shores of my childhood..."

lvaro has already turned thirty when a work setback returns him to the family home: his mother continues to live there and the promises of prosperity of his adolescence also remain, like ghosts. Without much else to do, he sets out to unravel an old mystery that began when he was fourteen years old: the disappearance of a videotape on sex education that was shown for them in class and which led to other equally inexplicable events.

Among dubious memories, we return with lvaro to the year 1991, to an all-male, concerted school in which they talk about the Spain of the future, where girls are light years away, parents and children are unable to communicate with each other, and growing up means to stop asking questions.

The Chalk Age is a great coming-of-age novel disguised as a novel of intrigue: the tale of "the most prepared generation in history," of the expectations and promises that the boomers lived through and which faded for the millennials.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 8420461032
• ISBN13: 9788420461038
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.4"