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Spanish Novels for Advanced Learners - C1 #22
Spanish Novels: La Fuga
Looking for Spanish Novels? I know how tough it is to find good readings to learn a new language.
You don't usually have a large vocabulary or are able to read long and complex sentences.
You'd like to go right to the fun stuff, but maybe it's too hard for you now.
A typical Spanish reader isn't interesting or just plain boring.
But this book is not like that.
Learning with Spanish Novels is easy and straightforward. Forget about difficult long texts with English-translations. This book for Spanish learners is not like that. It will take you to the next level in less time. That means less effort and struggling towards your way to fluency in Spanish. Improving your Spanish can be lots of fun.
A Spanish Book for The Advanced (C1) Both Fun & Easy La fuga is the book number 22 of the Spanish Novels Series. This Advanced Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday situations: greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has an advanced command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. You need to know conditionals, gerund, pluperfect and simple past tenses. Besides, in this book you will find longer and more complex sentences and chapters.
Four prisoners are planning a jail break in a maximum security prison in Chile. They will spend months crafting a sophisticated plan to break free and resume their lives outside the prison. To accomplish their goal they will have to work as a team. Will they finally break free or will they die trying it?
This Spanish Book for Advanced Learners will show you the most used grammar structures in different situations. As the difficulty level is just right you will learn and enjoy it at the same time. This Spanish book will definitely help you work your way up toward even more advanced readings.
Why Spanish Novels Short sentences Short chapters Easy vocabulary Simple grammar Everyday dialogues An Advanced (C1) Spanish Reader in SIMPLE Spanish. From the First Chapter:
El primer día de cada mes era día de peluquería. No importaba si era lunes, miércoles o domingo. Los primeros de mes todos los reclusos debían pasar por la peluquería para que Guillermo les corte el cabello. La mayoría le pedía que le corte con máquina, lo más corto posible. Era la mejor manera de mantenerse limpios y frescos, especialmente ahora que se acercaba el verano. No solo quedaba bien y estaba de moda. También era el mejor modo de no diferenciarse de los demás, de no llamar la atención.
Guillermo era uno de los pocos presos con experiencia profesional como peluqueros. Cuando le ofrecieron la oportunidad de cortarle el cabello a sus compañeros y a los empleados de la cárcel, no lo dudó ni un segundo. Sabía que, en la cárcel, acceder a un trabajo era todo un privilegio. El dinero era lo de menos. A cambio de este trabajo le pagaban una suma de dinero simbólica que no alcanzaba más que para comprar un par de paquetes de cigarrillos. Definitivamente, no lo hacía por el dinero. Lo que le interesaba era tener acceso a otros elementos a los que nadie podía acceder: tijeras, peines, ceras, cremas y otros productos. Nunca se sabía cuándo se podía llegar a necesitar alguno de estos elementos.
You don't usually have a large vocabulary or are able to read long and complex sentences.
You'd like to go right to the fun stuff, but maybe it's too hard for you now.
A typical Spanish reader isn't interesting or just plain boring.
But this book is not like that.
Learning with Spanish Novels is easy and straightforward. Forget about difficult long texts with English-translations. This book for Spanish learners is not like that. It will take you to the next level in less time. That means less effort and struggling towards your way to fluency in Spanish. Improving your Spanish can be lots of fun.
A Spanish Book for The Advanced (C1) Both Fun & Easy La fuga is the book number 22 of the Spanish Novels Series. This Advanced Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday situations: greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has an advanced command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. You need to know conditionals, gerund, pluperfect and simple past tenses. Besides, in this book you will find longer and more complex sentences and chapters.
Four prisoners are planning a jail break in a maximum security prison in Chile. They will spend months crafting a sophisticated plan to break free and resume their lives outside the prison. To accomplish their goal they will have to work as a team. Will they finally break free or will they die trying it?
This Spanish Book for Advanced Learners will show you the most used grammar structures in different situations. As the difficulty level is just right you will learn and enjoy it at the same time. This Spanish book will definitely help you work your way up toward even more advanced readings.
Why Spanish Novels Short sentences Short chapters Easy vocabulary Simple grammar Everyday dialogues An Advanced (C1) Spanish Reader in SIMPLE Spanish. From the First Chapter:
El primer día de cada mes era día de peluquería. No importaba si era lunes, miércoles o domingo. Los primeros de mes todos los reclusos debían pasar por la peluquería para que Guillermo les corte el cabello. La mayoría le pedía que le corte con máquina, lo más corto posible. Era la mejor manera de mantenerse limpios y frescos, especialmente ahora que se acercaba el verano. No solo quedaba bien y estaba de moda. También era el mejor modo de no diferenciarse de los demás, de no llamar la atención.
Guillermo era uno de los pocos presos con experiencia profesional como peluqueros. Cuando le ofrecieron la oportunidad de cortarle el cabello a sus compañeros y a los empleados de la cárcel, no lo dudó ni un segundo. Sabía que, en la cárcel, acceder a un trabajo era todo un privilegio. El dinero era lo de menos. A cambio de este trabajo le pagaban una suma de dinero simbólica que no alcanzaba más que para comprar un par de paquetes de cigarrillos. Definitivamente, no lo hacía por el dinero. Lo que le interesaba era tener acceso a otros elementos a los que nadie podía acceder: tijeras, peines, ceras, cremas y otros productos. Nunca se sabía cuándo se podía llegar a necesitar alguno de estos elementos.
142 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2016
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About the author
Paco Ardit
33 books83 followersPaco Ardit is the author of the Spanish Novels Series. He was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1976. Since the early 1980’s he lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He loves learning and teaching languages, reading books, and writing fiction. His mission is to create the best materials for language learners who don't want to settle for easy and boring.
Combining his experience in learning, languages and fiction writing he comes up with fun and engaging graded readers in multiple genres: Mystery, Detective Stories, Romance, Comedy, Drama, and more.
Combining his experience in learning, languages and fiction writing he comes up with fun and engaging graded readers in multiple genres: Mystery, Detective Stories, Romance, Comedy, Drama, and more.
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December 10, 2020
This is another great novella from Paco Ardit. It’s at C1 for advanced learners level so unless you want to be dipping into a dictionary or grammar every two minutes, you will need to have a pretty good understanding of the subjunctive, conditionals, gerunds and the various past tenses. If you’re a bit shaky with the pluperfect or conditional forms, you might be better off reading some of Paco Ardit’s books at B1 or B2 levels before you tackle this one. Also, be aware that the novel is set in Chile, so South American usage is going on. However, the author cleverly includes a Spanish character so you get some vosotros forms.
I won’t give away too much of the plot. Four prisoners in a maximum security prison form a plan to escape. All seems to be going well with the preparations until two of them have a falling out. Things seem to be patched up between them because they are all dependent on each other to make their escape….Suffice to say that the last five or so chapters are really gripping.
This is the first C1 book of Paco Ardit’s that I have read. There are two more C1s and then I will move on to his C2 books (there are three of each at the moment). By then I think I might be ready to read some “real” (and that’s not casting any aspersions on Paco Ardit) Spanish and Latin American literature.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has a good feel for Spanish grammar but isn’t quite ready for “real” Spanish novels.
I won’t give away too much of the plot. Four prisoners in a maximum security prison form a plan to escape. All seems to be going well with the preparations until two of them have a falling out. Things seem to be patched up between them because they are all dependent on each other to make their escape….Suffice to say that the last five or so chapters are really gripping.
This is the first C1 book of Paco Ardit’s that I have read. There are two more C1s and then I will move on to his C2 books (there are three of each at the moment). By then I think I might be ready to read some “real” (and that’s not casting any aspersions on Paco Ardit) Spanish and Latin American literature.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has a good feel for Spanish grammar but isn’t quite ready for “real” Spanish novels.
February 20, 2022
Enjoyable and a good ending.
April 13, 2023
La Fuga, is a good story for Spanish learners. As the title implies, it is about a prison escape. A group of four men are attempting to break free. All of them are in prison for having committed serious crimes including multi-homicide. The author goes into much detail on difficulties gay people face in prison. It is very questionable to what extend the ending is a "happy ending" because those who escape in order to realize their dreams of having freedom and enough money to start their own family were imprisoned for shooting and destroying others while robbing a bank.
The text itself keeps sentence length manageable for a language student and the vocabulary is not overwhelming either. La Fuga is definitely good reading practice.
The text itself keeps sentence length manageable for a language student and the vocabulary is not overwhelming either. La Fuga is definitely good reading practice.
July 5, 2024
I'm only giving it a 4 because it is good for learning Spanish. The story itself is uninspired and is mostly told and not shown.
June 12, 2017
A pesar de que solo le di dos estrellas a La Fuga (más adelante tocar ese tema), en realidad era una novela buena: la trama era maravillosa, los personajes estuvieron bien-hechos, y la dicción y el estilo eran apropiados para lectores de nivel C1.
La Fuga es la historia de cuatro hombres, todos criminales confesos, quienes se unen para planear escapar de la cárcel. El ritmo es dar en el clavo en que la cuenta se mueve ni demasiado rápido ni demasiado lento. La novela era con influencia literaria también -- me atrevería a decir que las personajes tienen mas importancia que la trama. El lector está invitado en el mente de cada miembro del cuarteto para mejor entender sus motivaciones; los personajes son verdaderamente matizados.
Es un libro de dos estrellas para mí a causa de 1) la predisposición cuestionable de dos, pues tres, de los caracteres, y 2) la sugerencia del autor que algunos crímenes queden impunes. Habiendo dicho eso, soy poquita hipócrita. Soy dispuesta a tolerar leer sobre los aspectos problemáticos de dinámicas penitenciarias y soy favorable a escapes de prisión en cuentas como Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption por Stephen King, pero curiosamente, no en este caso.
Recomendaría ese libro, pero con reservas fuertes.
Although I only awarded two stars to La Fuga (more on that later), it was actually a good novella: the plot was engaging, the characters were well-developed, and the diction and style were appropriate for C1-level readers.
La Fuga is the story of four men, all admittedly guilty of their crimes, who band together and plot to escape from prison. The pacing is spot-on in that the story moves neither too fast nor too slow. It is also quite literary – I would even venture to say that it is more character-driven than plot-driven. The reader is invited into the mind of each member of the quartet to better understand his motivations; the characters are indeed very nuanced.
This is a two star book for me due to 1) the “questionable” disposition of two, well actually three, of the characters and 2) the author’s suggestion that some crimes can go unpunished. That being said, I’m being somewhat (okay, very) hypocritical. I’m willing to tolerate reading about the more “problematic” aspects of prison dynamics and am sympathetic to prison escapes in stories like Stephen King’s Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, but oddly enough, not in this one.
I would recommend this book, but with very strong reservations.
La Fuga es la historia de cuatro hombres, todos criminales confesos, quienes se unen para planear escapar de la cárcel. El ritmo es dar en el clavo en que la cuenta se mueve ni demasiado rápido ni demasiado lento. La novela era con influencia literaria también -- me atrevería a decir que las personajes tienen mas importancia que la trama. El lector está invitado en el mente de cada miembro del cuarteto para mejor entender sus motivaciones; los personajes son verdaderamente matizados.
Es un libro de dos estrellas para mí a causa de 1) la predisposición cuestionable de dos, pues tres, de los caracteres, y 2) la sugerencia del autor que algunos crímenes queden impunes. Habiendo dicho eso, soy poquita hipócrita. Soy dispuesta a tolerar leer sobre los aspectos problemáticos de dinámicas penitenciarias y soy favorable a escapes de prisión en cuentas como Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption por Stephen King, pero curiosamente, no en este caso.
Recomendaría ese libro, pero con reservas fuertes.
Although I only awarded two stars to La Fuga (more on that later), it was actually a good novella: the plot was engaging, the characters were well-developed, and the diction and style were appropriate for C1-level readers.
La Fuga is the story of four men, all admittedly guilty of their crimes, who band together and plot to escape from prison. The pacing is spot-on in that the story moves neither too fast nor too slow. It is also quite literary – I would even venture to say that it is more character-driven than plot-driven. The reader is invited into the mind of each member of the quartet to better understand his motivations; the characters are indeed very nuanced.
This is a two star book for me due to 1) the “questionable” disposition of two, well actually three, of the characters and 2) the author’s suggestion that some crimes can go unpunished. That being said, I’m being somewhat (okay, very) hypocritical. I’m willing to tolerate reading about the more “problematic” aspects of prison dynamics and am sympathetic to prison escapes in stories like Stephen King’s Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, but oddly enough, not in this one.
I would recommend this book, but with very strong reservations.
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