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The latest in the Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary gems: a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco’s Spain, about a young gay man (the self-described “carnivorous lamb”) coming of age with a mother who despises him, a father who ignores him, and a brother who loves him.
Author Agustin Gomez-Arcos left his native Spain for France in the 1960s to escape its censorship policies. The Carnivorous Lamb, originally written in French, won the Prix Hermes, and this, its 1984 English translation, was widely acclaimed.
289 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1975

“Y este amor, más vivo que nunca, no está abocado a la muerte porque procede de la fuerza del pecado. Nació, en ti y en mí, el día en que las puertas del paraíso se cerraron. Antaño, en un tiempo que sólo nuestros genes recuerdan”Todo ello narrado con fuerza, brillantez y provocación (hay una escena de un bautismo que ni el propio Almodóvar habría osado). El problema viene con los dos tercios restantes, flojos, repetitivos incluso, sin aportar gran cosa a lo antedicho. Lástima