When we were going to the estraperlo

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SECOND EDITION The exciting chronicle d?a time of misery and picaresque, of repression and restrictions. An extraordinary style, a living language, a captivating story. A book that you drink d?a sip. When we went to l?estraperlo is an extraordinary testimony of the struggle to survive, of the picaresque of the poor to mock l?authority and earn their daily bread. With a stripped down style, direct and vibrant, halfway through the novel d?adventures and the chronicle, Víctor Labrado reconstructs the memory of?a very hard time: from the end of the second Republic to the immediate post-war period, when the Franco repression had to be added to the misery and hunger. Above d?a bicycle, to break d?dawn and always escaping from the civil guard, the young protagonist of the novel travels through the towns and cities of Valencia and Alicante loaded with?rice, oli o sardines. In an era of rationing of basic foods and restrictions of all kinds, go to?estraperlo was one of the few decent exits. Víctor Labrado He was born in Sweden (the Ribera Baixa) l?any 1956, is married and is a father d?a boy and a girl. He studied at?School of Teaching in Valencia and then graduated in Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona. It currently combines l?teaching with the position of Coordinator of the library and house-museum Joan Fuster, in his hometown. He has published the books "La mestra" (1995), with great public success, "The War of Four" (2002), "Valencian legends" (2007) and "The Valencian century" (2008).